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[This item is reproduced from ENEWS 10 (October 1991).]


From: Electronic Engineering Times - September 2, 1991 - Page 25

Copyright Rethinking GUI Policy

(Washington) - The Copyright Office is reconsidering an earlier policy that
excludes software developers from registering data or algorithms that depict
particular typefaces in certain programs. 

In a 1988 policy decision, the Copyright Office said the master program used to
control the generic digitization process could be registered if it was
original.  But the registration could not extend to the data fixing or to the
depiction of a particular typeface, or to any algorithm created as an
alternative means of fixing the data. 

However, the office has recently received numerous applications for computer
programs used in conjunction with typefaces, typefonts, and letter forms. 
After reviewing the claims, it became concerned that they could represent a
significant technology advance on the basis used to form the 1988 policy
decision. 

It's now asking for public comment on those technology changes.  A public
hearing will be held here Oct. 4.  For further information, contact Dorothy
Schrader at (202) 707-8380. (author - Brian Robinson)