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Article #35512Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody?
From: Jack Decker
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 17:47
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 17:47
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In article <81330@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >Before you do this, I suggest you double-check with Adobe that it's okay. >there's a big difference between passing the fonts around among friends and >making them available via a network. You might find yourself in violation of >their licenses if you aren't careful. I don't see why they should mind, >personally, but I wouldn't take it for granted. > 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. jack decker
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!midas!copper!jackd From: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody? Message-ID: <2682@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> Date: 15 Dec 88 17:47:39 GMT References: <18609@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <3524@tekig4.TEK.COM> <888@esquire.UUCP> <3854@ece-csc.UUCP> <81330@sun.uucp> Reply-To: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 16