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Article #35524Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody?
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 04:52
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 04:52
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>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. Actually, this doesn't matter -- Adobe fonts are protected by license instead of (as well as?) copyright, so even if there isn't a copyright restriction, the license you agree to when you open the package (or download from CompuServe) would still be in effect. Chuq Von Rospach Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms chuq@sun.COM When you're up to your *ss in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody? Message-ID: <81922@sun.uucp> Date: 16 Dec 88 04:52:41 GMT References: <18609@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <3524@tekig4.TEK.COM> <888@esquire.UUCP> <3854@ece-csc.UUCP> <81330@sun.uucp> <2682@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Fictional Reality Lines: 16