Sunday 30 October 2011

A consideration of Copy Right issues

A consideration of Copy Right issues in relation to Cloud Fish.

Images -
Fonts used -



Images
Any images we might use will be Creative Commons based.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses
This means in short that as long as we abide by the authors request (this maybe just to reference them somehow in the content) we can use the content created by them, tweek and even use the images for commercial use.

Fonts
A font will come with its own set of licensing rules. With the onset of HTML5, custom embedded fonts leaves developers open to copyright infringement in reference to the fonts they use.
A font by legal definition is regarded to be the same as software and hence taken very seriously. That is why we will be using free font websites.
http://www.fontsquirrel.com is a site that provides free commercial and non-commercial fonts with no strings attached.


"Look & feel"
A relatively new consideration, thanks to major lawsuit cases such as Apple suing Microsoft over the "look and feel" of Windows new operating system. This also transfers over to web pages.

We can safely sat that Cloud Fish is unique and isn't copying layout/colour schemes of other websites.