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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Are fonts illegal to copy??
Keywords: Macintosh, postscript, fonts, laserwriter
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.210314.4118@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 3 Jul 90 01:03:14 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to forsee censorship being
>accomplished by denying the intended publisher of a wildly unpopular tract
>license to use _any_ font.  For example, could Rushdie's Satanic Verses
>have found a font anywhere, with the Moslem world promising to car bomb the
>consenting foundry?  Surely, at the least, he couldn't have found an Arabic
>font anywhere in the Moslem world.

I don't think this point is valid.  Certainly he had to find a publisher, and
certainly the publisher had previously purchased the fonts.