Sunnanvind Fenderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > If you mean a bitmap font, then it's already free, because bitmap > > fonts are not copyrightable (in the US, at any rate; I'm not familiar > > with the law everywhere). > > I think that dingbat fonts, with different symbols or pictures instead > of letters, are copyrightable here, and normal ones too, if they're > different enough. Like the Futurama "alien" alphabet, that would be > copyrightable here, even if it had been a bitmap font.
Note that "Dingbat" is not a generic actually, but a very specific set of glyphs designed by Herman Zaph. The precedents in the United States are about fonts for letters. Symbols, dunno. Bitmaps of the Futurama font, if it's a font of letters, are not copyrightable, regardless how clever or different it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
