11 Feb
2021
11 Feb
'21
9:02 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Richard Salz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 9:04 PM George Michaelson
<ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
Not sure of that, but there are other techniques to protect it, like
patent, trademark, and trade secret. Just like unpublished proprietary
source code of AT&T, to coin a phrase.
I think you can't copyright the shapes, but you can copyright the vectors
that generate them because they're technically code.
Something weird like that.
But that's how you can have all those knockoff fonts Bitstream did, and
why a font like Book Antiqua was possible under US law.
-uso.