dhbailey wrote:
Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
But page layout has not been copyrightable under U.S. copyright law,
so it would remain for a copyright judge to make a decision as to
whether a Finale file is original creative content
I think the findings in Adobe v. SSI would apply here: the data that
constituted the glyphs in a typeface were found to be copyrightable
as "computer programs", even though the output they created were not.
But there are no unique data to create the "glyphs" in a finale
document. It is more a compilation of a sort of "1 from font A and 3
from Font B and 4 from custom lines" compilation of disparate items
into a single file.
Yes, well it's more complex than that, more on the order of "character
82 1024 evpu's from the beginning of frame 2348, with character 236
located above character 82 and syllable 463 from the lyrics table
located .4376 inches below the bottom of the staff". Some elements, like
the characters in the fonts used are incorporated by reference, other
items, like the distance of the character from the frame, are directly
in the file, and I am of the opinion that the Supreme court having
decided that the description of a single character is a "computer
program", that lower courts would likely rule by extension, that a
Finale file is a "computer program" too.
ns
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