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From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin)
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Subject: Re: Help: Japanese font ????
Keywords: Japanese, Kanji
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.171644.4715@visix.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:16:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr19.235515.21922@netcom.COM>, rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes:
> Don't anybody tell me AIX fonts are proprietary.  I refuse to recognize
> a "copyright" on something as basic as a font.  In fact, I find the idea
> of copyrighted fonts hilarious.

Why is that?  Did not someone sit down and create the font?  Why is this form of art
any different than, lets say, a painting?  Whould you say the same thing if it was a
multicolored 100 x 100 point font?  Surely someone would have to had put many of hours
of work into creating it.  Some fonts are just copies of simple bitmap fonts and may
not be copyrighted by any one person, but I don't think the blanket statement that
"font copyrighting should not be recognized" is out of place.

> Ben in San Jose, programmer, ecologist, net radical, loony at large.

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