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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Wish List item for HyperCard 2.0
Keywords: Buttons, icons, shapes, fonts
Message-ID: <6914@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 7 Apr 89 22:03:49 GMT
References: <1100@atux01.UUCP> <4790@charon.unm.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <4790@charon.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew Stone
CS.DEPT) writes:
>Etc, however, if you distribute your stack, you may want to include the 
>special fonts [if they are public domain, of course] so  the changes "stick"

I read in the newspaper (San Francisco Chronicle) last fall that the
USA courts had repeatedly ruled that electronic fonts could not be
registered with the copyright office.  I didn't snip the article,
but it should be easy enough to find from the Index if your library
carries the paper.  I think it's a bogus ruling -- fonts definitely
are works of art -- but it seems that at present, there are no legal
restrictions on font distribution.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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