Typographic copyright

Bruce Hayden writes:
>>
>> It would seem that the stuff you produce yourself would be
>> fairly simple to handle - you just mandate that certain fonts
>> be used, and for a font to be used, it would have to be PD.
>> The problem would seem to be worse for the stuff that is bought
>> (or licensed) and resold (or re/sublicensed). Of course this
>> problem is already faced by relicensers.

An interesting situation came up for the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union (of which I'm a member). We're putting together a fundraising booklet that will include published articles by a dozen members. In cases where the writer owned copyright, our steering committee decided not to use photocopies of the text from the magazines for fear of infringement, and instead asked contributors to send their articles as ASCII text.

This raises the question of how UnCover, which sells faxed article reprints -- and which has agreed to pay writers for their use -- can do so without getting permission from and presumably making payment to the publisher as well as to the writer.

Any comments?

Sarah Wernick
NWU-Boston
ASJA Contracts Committee
<70530.435[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Sat Mar 23 1996 - 05:50:06 GMT