On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:16:01AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > What I've got of copyright law is that fonts (the actual shape) is not > protectable by copyright, at least not in the US. BDF fonts probably > aren't protectable, because that's just description of the actual > shape.
Thanks for clarifying. > So apparently Japanese and US law agree on the general points. What's > the WIPO 1997 treaty, and who signed it? I read this in Japanese web page. I did google search in English and found following. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/acqpres/copyright/faq.html was good starting point. Also http://www.wipo.org is another. Reinforce your points. I could not identify exact resolution but there seems to be something going on at WIPO for font. Regards -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
