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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh Fonts
Message-ID: <710@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 14:52:22 GMT
References: <546@oscvax.UUCP> <1308@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
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In article <1308@uhccux.UUCP> cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) writes:
>In article <546@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>>I've recently converted a whole bunch of Macintosh fonts to the Amiga
>>format and I'd like to put them on a public domain font disk.  However,
>>I can see where there might be a few legal problems with doing this... 
>>So my question is this, which Mac fonts (if any) could I release without
>>being sued to bits? 
>>
>I think most of the fonts released by Apple are either copyrighted by
>Apple itself, or licensed to them by ITC, Adobe or others. This is
>especially true of some laser fonts, like ITC Garamond and Zapf.

If I understand it correctly, the copyright on fonts does not cover the
font itself.  It's the name that is copyrighted.  If I take a printed copy
of any of Adobe's fonts and create a machine readable version and then call
it MyFont, there is nothing Adobe can do about it legally.  The first issue
of the Postscript Journal, I believe deals with this in greater detail.




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