Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

[Declan McCullagh]

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.