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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: PC fonts for MAC?
Keywords: screen fonts, IBM PC, Macintosh
Message-ID: <7240@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 05:43:31 GMT
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Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
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In article <10839@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>
>According to the copyright office, ALL fonts are public domain.
>
>(He said, referring to the U.S. Copyright offic's recent decision
>that ``computer tyfaces lack distinct authorship, and because of
>their utilitarian value, we will not uphold any copyrights for
>computer font binaries'' or words to that effect)
>
>richard@gryphon.COM   {...}!gryphon!richard   gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov

Really?  I'd heard something along those lines a couple of months ago.  What
exactly was the decision regarding?

I'd be very interested to hear someone from Adobe who reads comp.sys.mac
offer their opinions on all of this.  Would they, or other typeface
vendors, have ANY legal recourse if people started wholesale copying of
commercial typefaces?

My concern would be that, with nothing LEGAL to hold them back, people
with nothing ETHICAL holding them back might just start taking this ruling
as an excuse to distribute typefaces indiscriminately.


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