Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

[Duncan Frissell]

I thought everyone knew.  Fonts aren't copyrightable.  Font *names* are.
The reverse of the norm.  With a story or novel the body of text is
copyrightable, the title isn't.

DCF

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Why wouldn't an original typeface be covered under U.S. copyright laws?
>
> -Declan
>
> At 10:12 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, David Honig wrote:
> >IIRC fonts are not copyrightable in the US, but are elsewhere, yes?
> >
> >Assuming that's correct, then an algorithmic font (eg Postscript) could be
> >turned into an albeit large static set of pixels which wouldn't be
> >copyrightable in the US.