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Subject: Re: typeface protection
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Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 02:41:00 EDT
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Sicherman writes, presumably seriously:
>Or I take two similar fonts by different designers, and take the average,
>character by character.  I make a couple of emendations, and alter one
>character distinctively.  Who will recognize the original fonts when they
>see my "new" one?  Yet the new font may be as good as the old ones; it
>may even be better.  Indeed, one of us amateurs is bound to come up with
>a derivative that's better than the original.

It would be nice if Ed Meese would concentrate on stamping out true
pornography, such as type fonts created this way, instead of concentrating
on nude women.