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Subject: Re: Re: Hershey fonts public domain?
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 15:16:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 15:16:29 1985
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From: ihnp4!noao!terak!suze@uw-beaver.arpa (Suzanne Barnett)

> From: ihnp4!sdcrdcf!RDCF.SDC.UUCP!darrelj@uw-beaver.arpa (Darrel VanBuer)
> 
> In looking at the paper (actually, my copy is microfiche) of PB-251 845,
> NBS-SP-424, "AContributin to Computer Typesetting Techniques: Tables of
> Coordinates for Hershey's, ...", it carries NO copyright notice, so the
> fonts can clearly be used freely if you're willing to type in the 1377 sets

You'd better check your copyright law again! And I quote from
_Circular_R1,_Copyright_Basics_, published by the copyright office,
November 1982.

	Under present law, copyright is secured AUTOMATICALLY
	when the work is created, and the work is "created"
	when it is fixed in a copy ... for the first time.
	... registration is not a requirement for protection...

(Registration and a notice USED to be a requirement, but it no longer
is.)

This has no bearing on whether or not the Hershey fonts are public
domain or not; only to say that you can't tell from the lack of a notice
that they ARE public domain.