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Article #3310Re: HP LaserJet Downloadable Fonts
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 06:29
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 06:29
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In article <709@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>If you derive something directly from someone else's copyrighted work,
>it's a violation (as far as I know).
>
>If you use a font program to print a character, the toner on paper is
>no longer copyrighted, just the program that got it there. You can
>derive work from the toner on paper if you like, but not from the
>program.
From a PostScript program, probably true. But since the Copyright
office has claimed they wont uphold a copyright on a font in ANY
form, this all becomes less and less clear.
Personally I feel they are poking the font manyfacturors in the side
to get Congress to pass a font copyright law. They as much said so
when they said (and I paraphrase) ``We arnt going to uphold ANY
font copyrights. Fonts are utilitarian in nature and lack
distinct authorship. If you dont like it, get congress to
pass a law''.
>Just opinions, and the usual "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer applies.
Me too.
Now - ta da - a source of HP downloadable fonts, that is after all
what the original poster requested so many weeks ago :-)
Ok, there's this commercial network called ``American People Link''
or ``plink''. It's like Compuserve, but smaller and cheaper.
In the amiga download section, there are a few megabytes of
HP fonts.
I have some phone numbers here - (800) 524-0100, and in Illinois
(312) 670-2666.
Now, the reason I know about this is Harv Laser a friend of mine
and he's the moderator of the Amiga part of it. This is my only
affiliation.
If you want to mail harv, try hrlaser@gryphon.COM.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: HP LaserJet Downloadable Fonts Summary: Source of HP fonts. Message-ID: <14081@gryphon.COM> Date: 2 Apr 89 06:29:02 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 49