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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protectio...

• nitrogen 12y ago
  Interesting. It sounds like it's still possible for a font file to be copyrighted, though: However, in 1992, the US Copyright Office revisited its 1988 decision, and determined that the latest digital outline fonts in fact had elements that could be protected as software.[4] Since that time, the Office has accepted registration of copyright for digital vector fonts, such as PostScript Type 1, TrueType, and OpenType format files. This is part of the basis of the unpublished opinion in Adobe Systems, Inc. v. Southern Software, Inc., decided in 1998, wherein Judge Whyte found that Adobe Software held a valid copyright for its Utopia font and that it had been infringed by the defendant(s) in that case.