Geoffrey Washburn writes: > However, the United States has also obligated itself to respect the > intellectual property rights of various other countries under > international treaties.
The treaties merely mean that other countries can complain if the US fails to alter its laws so as to do so. > Regardless, my goals are to protect the "user's rights to use, study, > copy, modify, and redistribute the program" that generates my typeface. Then release it under the GPL. > I am not all that concerned about protecting the actual images generated > by my program describing the typeface. So you are talking about a program with which the user generates typefaces? If any part of what you distribute ends up in the generated typefaces place those parts in the public domain. If not, don't worry about it: any copyright in the generated typefaces will belong to the user. > I am also interested in protecting my trademark claim on the name of the > typeface. Then you should not let anyone use it in commerce without your explicit permission. Note that a trademark is not a copyright. There are many uses of the mark that you cannot forbid and you can lose your trademark if you fail to enforce it where you can. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
