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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody?
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Date: 16 Dec 88 04:52:41 GMT
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>Has anyone heard of a recent court ruling pertaining to the copywrite
>status of computer fonts?  Someone told me that the court held that
>the underlying code to generate fonts (the printed form, not just the
>screen version) was held to be unprotected.  Of course my friend could
>just be rationalizing--he's got 75 purloined fonts sitting on his hard
>disk.

Actually, this doesn't matter -- Adobe fonts are protected by license
instead of (as well as?) copyright, so even if there isn't a copyright
restriction, the license you agree to when you open the package (or download
from CompuServe) would still be in effect.


Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

When you're up to your *ss in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial
objective was to drain the swamp.