[ARSCLIST] OT: Copyright and typefaces

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Copyright can be asserted for both PostScript and TrueType fonts: 
PostScript is printable and subject to human interpretation; TrueType is 
an executable program. Needless to say, the commercial faces have 
copyright notices in readable form within their headers.

The oddity arises when one uses a program to construct a font of one's 
own. I have used several such and each has embedded a copyright notice 
in the product - asserting that the rights belong to the publisher of 
the program used. It's as though Shure had the rights to a recording 
made with their microphones.

Since the PostScript file can be edited with a text editor, one could 
easily change the notice to assert rights of the person who created it - 
but is that legal? I wonder whether the original assertion is valid.

Mike
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