Re: Typographic copyright (was: Emory HTML claim)

From: Alan Sugarman <sugarman[_at_]hyperlaw.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:44:14 -0500 (EST)

What is this discussion all about? In my view, partly it is the effort of publishers of public domain material to establish some type of legal protection over information that the copyright law says is not protected. By coupling together things like supposed font copyrights with alleged prohibitions of intermediate copying, among other things these copyright maximalists wish to make it illegal to used an optical scanner and OCR to convert the non-copyrighted information to an electronic form.

Alan

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> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:26:03 -0500
> From: mbarnett[_at_]enc.org (Mary Barnett)
> Reply-To: cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> Sender: owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> Subject: Re: Typographic copyright (was: Emory HTML claim)
> To: cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> 
> 
> I have a book titled "Internet and the Law" and it states that fonts as
> typefaces used as just that, typefaces, are not copyrightable subject
> matter.  It goes on to say that using a particular font does not
> demonstrate enough creativity sufficient to qualify it for copyright
> protection.
> 
> There may be more to the story that I am aware of but this book states 
> this as if it were an across the board thing.
> 
> Mary Barnett
> <mbarnett[_at_]enc.org>
> 
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> 
> >> Terry Carroll wrote:
> >>
> >> a document using that font without permission to use the font?  If I
> >> want to photocopy a journal article, do I now have to worry about
> >> identifying and contacting the font owner as well as the author for
> >> permission?
> >
> > Why not?  What is the difference with quoting a line from a poem in
> > an otherwise unrelated article?
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