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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fontname/Font-legalities.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fontname/Font-legalities.html deleted file mode 100644 index b47b85bb25e..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fontname/Font-legalities.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -<html lang="en"> -<head> -<title>Filenames for TeX fonts</title> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> -<meta name="description" content="Filenames for TeX fonts"> -<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.6"> -<!-- -This document is in the public domain and may be used freely.--> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> -<style type="text/css"><!-- - pre.display { font-family:inherit } - pre.format { font-family:inherit } - pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } - pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } - pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } - pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } ---></style> -</head> -<body> -<div class="node"> -<p> -Node: <a name="Font%20legalities">Font legalities</a>, -Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Index.html#Index">Index</a>, -Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Encodings.html#Encodings">Encodings</a>, -Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> -<hr><br> -</div> - -<h2 class="appendix">Font legalities</h2> - -<p>This section owes a great deal to Charles Bigelow (co-designer with Kris -Holmes of the Lucida typeface family, among others), who has generously -answered our many queries about fonts and the law around the world with -remarkable patience and understanding. (But he is naturally not -responsible for any errors here, much less our opinions.) - - <p>Fonts have always been treated rather strangely under the law, as befits -their rather strange nature: letterforms are indivisibly both -<em>useful</em> and <em>artistic</em>. In most countries--in all countries -until recently--utility has taken precedence; i.e., it has been legal -to copy fonts without permission or fee. - - <p>In any case, to the best of my knowledge, the situation in those -countries which have adopted any sort of typeface protection is as -follows: - - <dl> - - <br><dt>United States - <dd>Typeface designs can be patented, but not copyrighted. Only a few -designs have been patented. (Lucida and Stone are the only ones I know -of. I don't know what the grounds were for patenting Stone, but Lucida -had some novel features in its design which make it reasonable to -patent, given the acceptance of the patent system in the first place.) - - <p>Particular programs which instantiate a font can be copyrighted just as -any other computer program can. This is arguably wrong, since font -programs are nothing but a description of the shapes, possibly with some -simple hints, and there's only one basic way to describe the shapes in -any given language. Thus, the creativity lies in making the shape -right, not in making the computer program right, so it would seem that -to be consistent, the copyright laws should protect the design, not the -program--the opposite of the current situation. - - <br><dt>Germany - <dd>Typeface designs have been copyrightable as original works of art since -1981. As a result, many (perhaps most) designs have been copyrighted -there. The law is not retroactive, but German courts have upheld the -intellectual property rights of designers of earlier fonts as well: In -one case the heirs of Paul Bauer (designer of Futura) won a suit against -the Bauer foundry for arbitrarily discontinuing a portion of their -royalties. - - <br><dt>England - <dd>A copyright law passed in 1989 covers typeface designs first published -in England (or published in Britain within 30 days of its publication -elsewhere), and it <em>is</em> retroactive. It's unclear how far back the -law extends, but Times Roman, designed in the late 1920's and 1930's by -Stanley Morison and cut by Victor Lardent for Monotype is probably -covered. This does not mean GNU (for example) cannot have a Times -Roman; it just means we cannot start with an English version, as the law -does not forbid importing foreign versions of English typefaces. - - <br><dt>France - <dd>The Romain du Roi typeface designed by Philippe Grandjean in 1702 for -the French royal family is protected, and perhaps other such "royal" -designs. There is no protection for designs in general. - - </dl> - - <p>In 1973 the international Vienna treaty on typeface design protection -was proposed. France ratified it in 1974 or 1975, and Germany in 1981. -The English law might constitute ratification, but this has not been -settled. In any case, since at least four countries have to ratify it -before it takes effect (and even then it takes effect only in those -countries which ratify it), it is still of no consequence for now. - - </body></html> - |