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Ask HN: Are the visuals of Unicode characters copyrighted?
If I were to use an esoteric unicode symbol as a logo, would that be copyrighted?
- PaulHoule 4y agoSee https://glarts.org/font-and-typeface-legal-tip-sheet/ https://glarts.org/font-and-typeface-legal-tip-sheet/
- Tabular-Iceberg 4y agoI have two questions about this: 1. What is a typeface? Intuitively it's a collection of types with a particular appearance, but then what is a type? Is it only what could be reproduced by an actual lead type, i.e. no colour emoji? Or does it only cover letters, numbers and punctuation, i.e. no dingbats? 2. What if you do business outside of the United States?
- ffhhj 4y agoI did my own version of a character widely used, with a small modification to differentiate it, so its copyright belongs to me.