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These days, there is a quarrel between a designer and an educational institution in the design circle. I believe you have heard of it. To avoid suspicion, Lin. I won’t give you the specific name, but you can search the keyword “boycott” on The website cool.com as soon as possible.
Keyword search results of Zhicu.com
The whole story goes like this: an educational institution rumoured to be preparing to go public once appropriated a designer’s video tutorials for its own paid teaching program (ie, for commercial purposes), refused to admit the infringement, refused to pay the fees, and recently asked the website to remove the designer’s rights posts.
The experience of this designer aroused the anger and resonance of a large number of designers. At that time, many people stood up and denounced this educational institution, and there was a collective boycott event as shown in the screenshot at the beginning.
Lin. While watching and eating melon, I thought that as a designer, in addition to having the consciousness of protecting their intellectual property rights, they also have to avoid infringing behaviors when searching for SU sense (CAI). It’s really very difficult!
So what are the basic copyright facts you should know to avoid the copyright minefield in everyday creation? Lin. For you to collect some relatively easy to remember copyright rules, can facilitate the future comparison.
Fonts that you can never figure out
To avoid infringement, the use of fonts can follow the following rules:
1, clear commercial:
Generally speaking, people will use the fonts that come with legitimate computer operating systems. But be careful: even if you pay for a legitimate font, that doesn’t mean it’s free to use. Microsoft Yahei, for example, can be used for free in personal works or teaching exhibitions, but its copyright is not entirely owned by Microsoft, and commercial use still requires authorization.
2. Free commercial use does not mean free use:
Some fonts are clearly available for free commercial use, or need to apply for certificate authorization; On the other hand, some fonts that are available for commercial use for free are only available for “commercial display”, not “embedded use”. For example, you can display, print, and distribute fonts on posters, brochures, and other media, but you can’t distribute font files (e.g. to your clients).
3. Free use does not mean open source:
Free fonts are not necessarily open source, which means that fonts cannot be modified and distributed without permission. There are a lot of people in order to avoid font copyright issues to modify the font and published, in fact, this itself may be infringement. At present, the example of open source Chinese fonts is the famous son of Google and Adobe — Siyuan Boldface:
Picture by setn.com
Thanks to open source fonts, the Chinese font world’s pitiful list of free commercial fonts has been given a decent alternative.
4. Prepare font authorization in time
Always make sure that the company (or party A) has a commercial license for the font you are planning to use before starting a project. Many e-commerce companies used promotional posters and were approached by font companies only to discover that designers were using fonts they didn’t even have permission to use.
Lin. Found a list of Chinese fonts with specific authorization conditions:
Link: http://zenozeng.github.io/Free-Chinese-Fonts/
As you can see, there are very few free and high quality Chinese fonts ~ 😭
You can also see the list in Wikipedia:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts
Note that fonts with a green “F” at the beginning are free commercial fonts. It can be seen that the common Microsoft yahei, Apple, Chinese text black, Song Style and so on are not free commercial list. Of course, none of these fonts should be a problem for personal use.
And for the choice of more English fonts, we can also refer to this idea to check their common fonts have free commercial authorization, if not that do the project will have to choose carefully.
Free big picture listen to many, copyright free?
Remember Lin. ‘s last post about Adobe releasing t-shirts? It turned out to be a marketing campaign for Adobe’s library platform, The Adobe Stock, to mock stereotypical stock images. It can be seen that designers all over the world are deeply yearning for: material map, give me more higher clarity of non-code watermarking material map! ≧ ≦ mouth
In the past, Lin. Has always used Google to search for pictures in personal works exhibition and work, which is not only the largest sample database, but also the image search results of Google are very accurate, which is not comparable to Baidu. But it’s risky because I don’t usually have enough time to dig out every image, every website terms of use, and read them carefully, so I have to sacrifice this convenience for commercial projects.
The surest course, therefore, is to adopt CC0 (waiver of copyright) altogether (see: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed), the Public Domain free gallery (Public Domain), and the best is clearly the figure, in addition to the commercial use, can also for editing images. The characteristics of this kind of picture are:
Yes, can be used and modified arbitrarily, do not need to indicate the source of that kind!
However, Lin. Recommends using provenance whenever possible. Although CC0 represents that the original author has given up the rights related to the work, it does not mean that the author can own the copyright.
Dedicated to CC0 gallery website recommended as follows:
1, Pixabay
All CC0 pictures/videos. You can download, modify, distribute, and use them anywhere you want, even in business applications without attribution.
Website: https://pixabay.com
2, IM Free
All are commercially available free images without attribution.
Link: http://imcreator.com/free
3,Magdeleine
This website style is small and fresh, there are picture classification, picture label, and picture color category, for you to find the type of picture you need more quickly, as long as the picture copyright difference adjustment to CC0 can be directly downloaded and used.
Free high-quality stock photos for your inspiration – Magdeleine
4, Free Images
High definition and copyright – free images.
https://freeimages.red/
5, CC0 free gallery search engine
Of course, if you are too much trouble, you can also use it – the search engine, can no longer individually into individual gallery site, to do individual search action, which also represents the production of pictures used by the site, can save a lot of process and time, but the interface is a little simple.
Link: http://cc0.wfublog.com/
Oh, and vector graphics
When you not only need general JPG, PNG image files, but also need to be able to zoom in size without losing the real quality of professional vector files, such as AI, SVG format files, is there a special collection of “free vector library” website?
Of course there is, and Lin.
1, Fontello
This site allows you to create your own style ICONS. After selecting the icon symbol you want and resize it, you can download it.
Link: http://fontello.com/
2. FreePik: over 70,000 sets of free vector files
FreePik is currently one of the largest collection of free vector map resources on the website, and the site has a very useful gallery classification, search engine, can help us quickly find the vector map materials we need.
And FreePik collection of vector gallery in addition to free download and use, most also allow you to change, mix, and use for commercial purposes, as long as the original designer identification can be. You can see a link to licensing instructions above the green download button for vector images. Click to see the licensing instructions for each image.
Note that some of the FreePik material comes from third party websites, so you must check and follow the licensing instructions of the third party websites yourself.
Link: http://www.freepik.com/popular-vectors
3. Flaticon: beautifully designed vector ICON file search engine
As an extension of FreePic, Flaticon is dedicated to collecting and searching professional vector ICONS. A large number of free professional icon groups can be downloaded and used on the site.
Link: http://www.flaticon.com/
VectorPortal: a commercial vector gallery for professional designers
VectorPortal claims to be one of the top 10 vector gallery sites in the world and aims to collect free materials that designers can use for commercial purposes.
Link: http://www.vectorportal.com/
conclusion
In fact, in the long run, respecting and protecting intellectual property rights is a virtuous circle that designers, as creators and beneficiaries, should establish. Even if “free” resources are readily available on the Internet, we should carefully examine copyright issues when using them for personal and commercial use. “Free does not mean free use.”
Editor: Lin.
