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From: rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge)
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Subject: Re: Apple challenges MS-Windows, et.al.
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Date: 29 Mar 88 22:52:59 GMT
References: <2543@charon.unm.edu> <5134@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corp., Orange, CA
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Summary: More copyrighted 'Look and Feel' than you think

In article <5134@venera.isi.edu>, raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
> 	Being able to copyright "look and feel" is a decision the
> 	courts should reverse.
	...
> 	They could use the same graphic
> 	styles, font styles, page layouts.

> 	Most newspapers have similar look-and-feel.  Could you picture
> 	requiring all newspapers to either pay royalties to one company
> 	or cease publication?

Most newspapers *buy* their fonts from the same companies.  They do not
copy these fonts.  (Just like the LW+ fonts- some are licensed from
ITC..)  And I disagree that newpapers have similar looks & feels.  In
Southern California, the 3 big papers, LA Times, LA Herald-Examiner and
the Orange County Register look completely different.

Can you imagine newspaper designers being original?

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