Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!sendai!rich From: rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: What about the Adobe Lawsuit? Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 89 19:10:29 GMT References: : <8480@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: rich@sendai.UUCP Reply-To: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us Distribution: eunet,world Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 14 In-reply-to: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU's message of 16 Apr 89 00:30:54 GMT In article <8480@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes: As many of you will already know, fonts are not copyrightable under the current copyright legislation. Unfortunately, while the intent was to deny protection for font representations, the wording specifies that it is the analog representation of fonts that is not copyrightable. The *description* of a font *is* copyrightable. It was pointed out to me recently that the titles of the fonts can still be trademarks. -- rich.