Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

[David Honig]

At 07:35 PM 12/17/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>"ATM" is "Adobe Type Manager".  Linotype is a big font house.
>Intellectual Property laws for fonts are normally even stranger than for 
>regular material,
>but if any of these are in Postscript, they're also programs,
>so there may be DMCA issues, and there's obviously some contractual
>relationship with Adobe that lets them copyright implementations.

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.