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As of right now, the current opinion is that fonts cannot be copyrighted.
They can be trademarked, however, so if you created a font that was exactly
the same as Times Roman, you couldn't call it that because the name is
owned by Allied-Linotype.  As long as you aren't working from the original
digital data that produced the font, the result isn't covered by copyright
protection.  Similarly, if an artist created a font by hand using a printed
representation of a font, the result isn't a violation of copyright law.
Note that several contries outside the U.S. (e.g., Germany) have copyright
laws that specifically address typefaces.

For more information on this issue, I suggest you read Charles Bigelow's
article in the upcoming issue of the PostScript Language Journal.

Pat Wood
Editor, The PostScript Language Journal