Copyright protection of Chinese computer character fonts

April 16, 2009 | BY

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Sharon Rongde [email protected] are two essential elements to determine whether a work should be protected under copyright law, namely originality…

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There are two essential elements to determine whether a work should be protected under copyright law, namely originality and reproducibility. Originality standards, generally accepted in judicial practice in China, indicate that work should be independently created and accomplished and the content and form of the expression should be totally or substantially different from works that have been published by others or fall into the public domain.

The PRC Copyright Law provides a specialised category of the types of works protected. These include literary works; oral works; musical works; dramatic works;quyi works; choreographic works and