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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: copyright infringement for fonts
Message-ID: <2671@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 87 08:39:11 GMT
References: <2515@fluke.COM> <2082@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 21
Summary: Can't believe we're discussing this

In article <2082@cup.portal.com> Patrick_Amigan_Gross@cup.portal.com writes:
>Concering copyrights of fonts...

Didn't the Bigelow article answer all these questions ?

>1. The name of a font can by copyrighted by a company...

The name of a font can be a registered trademark. You don't copyright a name.

>2. The font itself can only be copyrighted for 15 years. At the end of that tim
>   the font itself can be given a different name of either recopyrighted or
>   even used in the Pd sector.

The binary can be copyrighted. The font design cannot be.



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