Making choices, not copies

Article Abstract:

Typeface and font creations require artistic and technical skills that go unrecognized in the legal and art worlds, leading to copyright infringement and unauthorized duplication of software. Designers need to know how to protect their font designs using trademarks for names of fonts and copyrighting the font software. The law offers copyright protection to individuals for the span of a lifetime plus fifty years; for corporations the time frame is a flat 75 years. In order to prove a legal infringement, typeface designers need to show that a copy of the font disk, not a re-digitized typeface, occurred. Trademarks for font names can help protect intellectual property, but the trademark symbols must remain on the product for a substantial case to be argued. Patents expire after 14 years, allowing the general public access to ideas that spent some time generating compensatory income for the designers.

Copyrights, Patents, Graphic arts, Software Packages, Industry Analysis, Patent/Copyright Issue, Legal Issues, Trademark

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Fonts & font management: software directory

Article Abstract:

Fonts are now available from vendors on CD-ROM disks that contain libraries of hundreds of fonts. Another trend is to sell fonts in smaller units, as only one part of a whole family of fonts, for less than $100 in some cases. Apple's System 7.0 uses the TrueType font format and also supports the Adobe PostScript and font format. Font libraries, non-Roman fonts, font editing software, font special effects, and font management software are listed for the Apple Macintosh, IBM PC and compatibles, and for Unix machines. Information includes vendor name, address, phone number, product name and list price for each product.

Software, Desktop publishing software, Desktop publishing, Directory, Buyers Guide, Directories, Production control, CD-ROM disks, Dictionary, DTP Software, CD-ROM, Scalable Fonts

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