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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyrighting fonts
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Date: 15 Jul 90 01:56:22 GMT
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In <25900@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <26A0CB70.1155@ics.uci.edu> rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
>>In article <1771@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>>
>>>Interestingly enough, fonts are not copyrightable.
>>>-larry
>>
>>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.
>
>Well, you're both wrong.  Fonts per se are NOT copyrightable.

Not to pick nits marco, but I am not wrong, as you note in the rest of your
posting.

-larry

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