Civil Law Protection against Misuse of Free for Personal Use License Copyright Works of a Font Design

Abstract

Copyright is an exclusive right owned by a creator of a work and arises automatically based on the declarative principle after a work is realized in tangible form. Settlement of cases against license abuse can be done in two ways, namely by litigation (Court) and non-litigation (outside the Court). This study aims to determine the implementation of civil law protection and to determine the process of resolving civil cases against cases of misuse of free licenses for personal use of copyright works of a font design. The type of research used is the type of empirical juridical research and sociological juridical with a qualitative approach method that is descriptive and tends to use analysis because the focus of research is in accordance with the facts contained in the field. Based on the results of the research that the author obtained, the results of the settlement of the case were obtained by non-litigation and the settlement process was by arbitration with the help of a third party, namely an arbitrator. And Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright Article 113 paragraph (3) with further explanation contained in Article 40 paragraph (1) letter F as the main reference in legal protection against misuse of the free for personal use license."