![]() Most foundries have very similar fonts derived from work largely designed by others. ![]() ![]() This leaves the door open in the USA to have anyone pay for the output of each character from a typesetter and re-digitize it or extract the design from a font program (and rename it), easily duplicating the design. 101), nor original databases, nor any other original work of authorship.” So, in a font, the name, any programming code not describing the font design are all that can be copyrighted. The digitized representations of typefaces are neither original computer programs (as defined in 17 U.S.C. According to them there can’t be any original font style, because, every font is created by slightly modifying some other font, and there aren’t really “new” font designs! See the following excerpts from the law “The Copyright Office has decided that digitized representations of typeface designs are not registerable under the Copyright Act because they do not constitute original works of authorship. ![]() Here, the digital outline can never be protected. ![]()
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