Re: Typographic copyright (was: Emory HTML claim)

From: Soupline <soupline[_at_]ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:38:07 -0800

Mark Lemley wrote: 

>

> Maybe Dennis Karjala will like this -- if you want to raise the costs
> of copiers of public domain material, just print the material in your
> own copyrighted font! They can't scan it directly; they'll have to
> retype it by hand. But I think there are many cases where we don't
> want to impose such a cost, and I don't know that encouraging font
> proliferation is worth it in the long run.

If someone did print something in their own font, and I have OCR software that can read it, couldn't I use a Sega v. Accolade fair use argument to scan it so that I can access the public domain material? I would only copy the font long enough to allow my software to change it to some PD font.

Roger Cepeda
JD/MBA student
Georgetown University
<soupline[_at_]ix.netcom.com> Received on Sun Mar 24 1996 - 04:30:17 GMT

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