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From: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang)
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Date: 15 Jul 90 20:00:48 GMT
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In article <1771@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
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>Interestingly enough, fonts are not copyrightable.
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>-larry
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I remember reading a CACM article where this lawyer argued that a font
could be copyrighted as a "data compilation."  He also complained that
the copyright laws for data compilations made them the vertible black
hole of copyright law, almost anything could go into it.

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@ICS.UCI.EDU)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 a poor Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.