Which font are you using?
> From: "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:26:34 CST
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> Subject: Re: Installing Fonts
>
>
> So what is the general theme here can we copy font files that have been
> installed in our font directory and distribute them with our apps? I
> commonly use a font that was not part of Windows 95 but has been part
> Windows since. I just need to check if it's there which it probably is and
> if it's not install it.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Regards
>
> Monte
>> From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Installing Fonts
>> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:00:32 -0800
>>
>>> Fonts are copyrighted. However, strictly speaking, it is the name of
>>> the font rather than the actual font itself that is copyrighted. So,
>>> technically, you could duplicate a font and distribute it under a
>>> different name. This is being looked at by various copyright
>>> authorities across the world, so don't trust this as a reliable
>>> tactic! Ethically of course, this "copy & rename" strategy is a
>>> no-no!
>>
>> This changes so much that I can't be sure, but last I heard this was the
>> story with copyrighting fonts:
>>
>> The letter forms are not copyrightable. They are viewed as having
>> primarily
>> "utilitarian" value only, and are therefore not protected under copyright
>> law. IMHO this is silly, and has dire ramifications for all industrial
>> design, but hey, the Bern folks never asked me.
>>
>> However -
>>
>> OUTLINE fonts ARE copyrightable, not as letter forms but as software.
>> Since
>> they contain descriptions of the math needed to render the letter forms,
>> outline fonts (as opposed to bitmap, which I just don't see very often
>> anymore) are considered a form of "executable code", and are protected as
>> with any software program.
>>
>> Again, I haven't followed this issue closely in the last few years, so it
>> may have changed again, but that's how I last heard it.
>>
>> More than just renaming the code, running it through a tool like
>> Fontographer may fully satisfy the requirements, since doing so will, if
>> done properly, cause the code to be regenerated in a different form,
>> hopefully substantially different enough to avoid copyright conflicts.
>>
>> Since this practice of making "knock off" fonts this way had become rather
>> popular, this may have given rise to the perception that merely changing
>> the
>> name is all that's required -- since the law doesn't recognize letter forms
>> as a creative work, to the user the only discernable difference is the name
>> (even though the underlying code may be very differently structured).
>>
>> But as they require us to say here in Kalifornia:
>>
>> "I am not an attorney. If you need the services of an attorney you should
>> contact a qualified professional in your area."
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Media Corporation
>> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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