Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
With respect to reverse engineering the "Revere" font of Graphier as
Matthew suggested, and about which he further wrote, in part:
It would of course be illegal to do this most likely - what is the
status of 'abandonware' these days?
It would probably depend upon in which jurisdiction(s) the copyrights
are registered involved. For example, there are works composed by Wood
between 1923 and his death in 1926, in which the copyrights were owned
by Oxford University Press. I understand that, under UK copyright law,
these works are in the public domain, because the copyright expired at
the end of the 70th year after his death, however, OUP-USA claims that,
despite the fact that these items are public domain in the country of
original registration, that under U.S. law, those works of Wood composed
between 1923, and 1926, which are still subject to copyright.
Further, "Fonts" in the U.S. are explicitly excluded from copyright by
statute, (though digital fonts are in a somewhat less clear area because
of a confusing ruling of the U.S. supreme court; Adobe succeeded in
persuading the court that a digital font is output of a computer
program, and while the exact same shapes generated by handset type are
not copyrightable, the digital version is.) Case law suggests, that in
the U.S., if you printed out all of the characters of the revere font
enlarged them with an analog pantagraph, and scanned and digitized the
enlarged images, that this would not be infringement on the font in the
U.S.; I'm guessing, however, that it would violate graphical copyright
in the E.U.
ns
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