27-Nov-03 05:24 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Nov 24, 2003, at 11:15, GOTO Masanori wrote: >> So it's hard to make Japanese characters which have beautiful shape >> and unified baseline because each form is complex, and there are a lot >> of such complicated characters.
> Well, at the risk of starting a flame war, that says more about how > screwed up the language is than about the copyrightability (in the US) > of a work. The amount of work doesn't really matter; the amount of > creativity does. See, e.g., Feist v. Rural Telephone. And only creativity whose result is separable from utilitarian aspects really matters. > In fact, before the 1976 act, typefaces were copyrightable in the > United States. Congress chose to change that. Huh? Eltra was decided under the 1909 Copyright Act. Sasha
