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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: copyright infringement for fonts
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Date: 23 Dec 87 21:30:40 GMT
References: <2515@fluke.COM>
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In article <2515@fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>Warning:  I am not a lawyer, and if I was I would deny it.
>
>Someone asked "How do you prove that someone copied the design of a font,
>and not the binary?"

As anyone who has worked with fonts knows, the US Copyright law has some
mongo loopholes when it comes to copyrighting fonts. Basically, all you 
can do is Copyright/Trademark the name and not the images. This issue is
being addressed in the latest proposal to amend the copyright laws, write
your congresscritter for the details (and show them you care.)

--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.