On 2026-05-27, Vikki McDonough via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't the U.S. Copyright Office definitively state several years back that > writing systems *themselves* (as distinct from the fonts used to *display* > those writing systems) are not copyrightable (
Unicode operates in other places than the U.S.A. - that's kind of the point of it! I personally doubt that the Tolkien Estate/Trust would prevail in most jurisdictions, but they have deep pockets (they got $24M from the films). So unless you have a rich friend who will give an unlimited and binding guarantee to bankroll Unicode in all the jurisdictions it might be sued in, it ain't going to happen without the Estate's consent.
