18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
10:56 p.m.
I thought everyone knew. Fonts aren't copyrightable. Font *names* are. The reverse of the norm. With a story or novel the body of text is copyrightable, the title isn't. DCF On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Why wouldn't an original typeface be covered under U.S. copyright laws?
-Declan
At 10:12 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, David Honig wrote:
IIRC fonts are not copyrightable in the US, but are elsewhere, yes?
Assuming that's correct, then an algorithmic font (eg Postscript) could be turned into an albeit large static set of pixels which wouldn't be copyrightable in the US.