 Court decisions have set vastly different standards for the eligibility of works of applied art on the one hand and other types of work on the other, especially fine art.While the barrier is usually very low for fine art and protection is granted even for minimal creativity (dubbed ""kleine Münze"", literally "small coin" or "small change"), there are extremely high standards for applied art to be reached for it to achieve copyright protection.This is so because "Geschmacksmuster" (design patents) and "Schriftzeichengesetz" (typeface patents) are seen as "lex specialis" for applied art such that the threshold of originality must not be assumed low for them.