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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: postscript->HPLJ font conv
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 18:01:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 18:01:08 1987
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>	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.
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