SharkD wrote:
> On 6/11/2010 2:03 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> That said, my understanding is that you can trademark a font name, and
>> you can copyright the file the font is in, but you can't copyright the
>> font itself. (I.e., a font is an "idea" while a TTF file is an
>> expression of that idea.)
> 
> Why would their copyright be different than any other artistic work?

Hey, I don't make the rules.

I don't think it is different. Maybe you could copyright each individual 
letter shape or something. But the font as a whole is designed to be used 
with rearranged characters, yes?  You can copyright a book, but not the 
individual words in a book, too.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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