- From: Mirko Gustony <mirko.gustony@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:12:35 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello, as a web designer I am reading this discussion with increasing interest. Could someone please explain me, why fonts actually do need more technical protection then let's say a ... text (I know there was a similar question already)? Both are (depending on the country) more or less protected by law (e.g. in Germany there is something called "Urheberrecht" which protects works of art from time of creation on, in the US there might be something alike). Both are easily to copy and reuse (I would say a text is much more easier to reuse than a font). Why don't we have technical protection built-in some W3C spec to technically protect text? Wouldn't it be quite unfair if authors or vendors of fonts are treated different than authors of texts? If there is a lesson to be learned then please have a look at the pain the music industry is experiencing (mostly because their attempts to protect themselves did not aim the pirates but their customers—which their customers recognized quite fast but the record companies did to late). My 2 cent. Mirko Gustony
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