11 Feb
2021
11 Feb
'21
5:07 a.m.
On 2021-02-10 10:02 p.m., Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Richard Salz wrote:
Added irony and lesson: Bitstream's digitisations and originals were
markedly better and more complete than Adobe's, who were able to use the
licensed names.
--T
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 Just like unpublished proprietary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.