Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers Subject: Re: postscript->HPLJ font conv Message-ID: <8302@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 18:01:08 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.8302 Posted: Tue Jul 14 18:01:08 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 18:01:08 EDT References: <1987Jul7.181706.1013@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 Keywords: Illegal? > Postscript fonts are probably copyrighted... Unless things have changed since I last heard, it is not possible to copyright the shape of a font in North America. (In Europe the situation is different.) The most one can do is trademark the name, which is why we see so many interesting variations on the words "Times Roman". It remains unethical to use somebody else's font shapes without paying him a royalty (e.g. by buying a printer whose manufacturer has paid him a royalty). It's theft, albeit of a type that North American law does not yet recognize. If you have signed licensing agreements in order to use the fonts in question, you are bound by what you have signed, of course. -- Support sustained spaceflight: fight | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the soi-disant "Planetary Society"! | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry