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You're right, it's a backwards hypothetical. Maybe in that world, NIST would have created a font for all to use. > the IRS would choose fonts that were eithe
by kube-system 3y ago
You're right, it's a backwards hypothetical. Maybe in that world, NIST would have created a font for all to use.
> the IRS would choose fonts that were either in the public domain or had permissive licenses.
Presuming a suitable option existed at the time, without requiring the government to make one themselves.
It would be silly if, by default, the purchaser of a printing press has no legal right to print anything with it. Maybe we would have lived in a world where typewriter manufacturers had all of the power that publishers had/have, but even broader.
- eru 3y agoPrinting presses are older than (most) copyright laws.
- kube-system 3y agoYes, and they still existed when those laws were written. It would have been a strange shift to make overnight for any new printing presses, no?
- eru 3y agoWell, before those laws you could presumably copy anything, and after that you had to get the author's permission. (I say presumably, because most likely those laws replaced some earlier similar regulations.)