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Subject: Re: Hershey fonts public domain?
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 19:53:45 EST
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From: DonWinter.pasa@Xerox.ARPA

The fonts may well be in the Public Domain -- if you're willing to type
in the data from a hardcopy. What is being protected is the electronic
means of distribution. NTIS is required to recover its costs of
acquisition, storage, and distribution. It can't do that if it sells one
copy to you, and you use your budget (however invisibly) to make copies
for others, who make copies for others, who . . .

The TEXT of Shakespeare's plays has been public domain for over
three-hundred years, but if I assemble a new collection of First Folio
pages, the result is emphatically NOT in the public domain, since the
COLLECTION comprises a new work.

In summation, it is likely that it is the contents of the TAPE which are
covered by that agreement, not the fonts themselves.