On 25 Jul 2005 at 13:10, Ken Durling wrote: > At 01:08 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: > >In a message dated 7/25/2005 11:53:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >>And so far as I am aware, you can't copyright data. > > > >You can absolutely copyright data. If I do some original research > >that results in data collection or construction, that's proprietary. > > > >If fonts technically qualify as data by this definition, however, I > >don't know. > > Isn't "TrueType" copyrighted technology? I guess i just think so > because it has "brand" name, but is it?
Well, it's trademarked, but I don't know about copyright. A font definition is data, but it could be that the US law's definition of "data" doesn't extend to something as specific as the data for a font definition. But it seems to me that it would be an arguable case. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
