[OpenFontLibrary] Copyrights / Typefaces

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>On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:34 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman  wrote:
>> Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this  project.
>> I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any  event, I'm
>> pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with  Bodoni.
>
>Watch out that although typefaces designed by US citizens  in the US
>are not protected by copyright, other countries, and in  particular
>Germany, do have copyright for typeface designs...
>
>(and the US does have copyright treaties these days, so if a  design
>is copyright in Germany or Fance or the UK (say), that  copyright
>is to be respected in the US... although it might be hard  to
>enforce because of past cases)
 
 
No, the copyright treaties the United States has entered into specify  that 
something copyrighted in a foreign country is not subject to copyright  in 
the U.S. *unless* it would have been subject to copyright if it were made in 
 the U.S. Typefaces are not subject to copyright in the U.S., no matter 
where  they were made.
 
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