Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: copying fonts
Message-ID: <1988Oct31.183632.14050@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13120@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 18:36:32 GMT

In article <13120@oberon.USC.EDU> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
>By the way, is it legal to build and use a PostScript font from commercially
>printed material using an outline-tracing tool? ...

Pirating a font in this manner is not illegal in the US; font names are
protected by trademark but font outlines are unprotected.  The situation
is different in some other countries.  You may also want to consider
whether what you propose is ethical, as opposed to merely legal.
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