On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:50:37PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:55:53PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > > Use is covered by the Fair Use provision of Copyright > > > > law. The fonts are free. > > > > Is this the n+1th abuse of Fair Use, or do you actually have some > > > arguments supporting that claim? > > > You have a copy of the program. > > You want to tell me you now need special permission to run it? > > I don't think your analogy holds. Remember that we're talking about > fonts. In this case "use" entails reproducing the artistic contents > of the font, that is, the lettershapes - so IMO use of a font must > be considered form of copying. >
Running a program involves copying it from disk into memory :) > This again means that the original claim that use of fonts are > fair use is wrong, IMO. On the other hand, in the situation at > hand there is a blanket permission to distribute the font; that > must also cover the special kind of distribution that consist > of using the font to typeset a document. > I recall a precedent here in the US where a document was not infected by the copyright on the fonts used therein. It seemed to say that so long as you've lawfully aquired a font, you're free to use it when typesetting any documents you like. You might want to check the legal archives before deciding on this. If I recall correctly, this may have been back far enough that fonts were still made of metal and typesetting was still done with plates -- but it should still apply in our case. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
