- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:56:18 +1000
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Copyright is certainly an issue wrt. fonts. The name of a font can be > copyrighted, However, the outline of glyphs isn't protected. You can > -- in all relevant jurisdictions, I believe -- print out hi-res > renditions, scan the printouts and generate new font files. That seems backwards to me. As far as I understand copyright issues, you can't copyright a name of any sort, but you can trade mark it. Considering that the glyphs are the actual artwork within the font, I believe copyright would protect them, and so wouldn't copying them in any way be a breach? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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