Not So Smooth As Shampooed Hair: Copyright Font Infringement. Founder Electronics Sues P&G and Carrefour

Do you remember Founder Electronics sueing Blizzard Entertainment, August 2007 for copyright font infringement? Read here. Now the People's Daily Online reports that Founder Electronics has filed a suit against Procter & Gamble (P&G) in Guangzhou, Guangdong province and Carrefour in Beijing, also for copyright font infringement. Founder Electronics is claiming 1.478 million yuan for damages.

"Founder Group claimed that without the authorization of Founder Electronics, Proctor and Gamble (Guangzhou) used the Founder fonts “Qian style” and "Cartoon style” on its exterior packaging, product labels, product trademarks and publicity materials for 55 products it produced, including Rejoice shampoo, violating the copyrights of the Founder Electronics font collection."

Read the People's Daily Online article here.
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Founder Sues Blizzard Over Font Copyright Infringements

Xinhua news reported about California-based Blizzard Entertainment (owned by Vivendi, a French media and telecom company) being sued by Chinese font producer Founder Electronics at the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court, because of alleged font copyright infringements in its massively multiplayer online (mmo) games World of Warcraft.

"A statement from Founder Electronics said five fonts from its database were used without authorization in the popular on-line fantasygame World of Warcraft (WoW), resulting in losses of one billion yuan."

Despite these alleged losses of one billion yuan, Founder Electronics claims 100 million yuan for lost earnings, because of non-authorised use of the fonts of Chinese characters.

Read the Xinhua article on the site of China.com in English here.

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