jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (07/09/89)
I have a number of stacks that have overlaid text areas controlled by
background buttons. Until the mouse hits one of the hot spots, all the pieces
of text are visible as one big jumble; when the mouse hits a hot spot then all
but one of the pieces of text are hidden allowing the one standout piece to be
read. (This is the way I intend the piece to work, not a bug.) All of this
is working just fine, but I'm running into a size problem on my stacks. They
are so big I can only fit 3 on one floppy. The stacks use *no fields*.
Instead the various pieces of text are imported as graphics. Pretty expensive
in terms of disk space, obviously. So why, you ask, didn't I use fields?
Well, frankly I've been scared away from fields because of the question of
distributing fonts. I bought World Class Fonts, and use quite a few which are
not on a standard Mac. For me to use text fields the fonts would have to be
implanted into the stacks with ResEdit. It seems to me that for me to then
distribute these stacks would violate copyright on the fonts.
On the other hand, this is not completely clear. For someone who received my
stacks to be able to use the fonts, she/he would have to *explicitly* copy
them using ResEdit her/himself. It seems to me that for me to distribute
stacks with these fonts is at least arguable as fair use. On the other hand,
it's clearly arguable that it *isn't* fair use, but infringement, & *I* can't
afford to be the one who finds out by getting involved in litigation!!
I have two questions. Does anyone really *know* anything about the legality
of distributing a stack with a purchased font installed as a resource? I'm
asking for someone with real legal knowledge, not just flame-of-the-month
club. The second question is: would Supercard help me here? I'm kind of
surprised by how much much negative attention Supercard has gotten here,
actually, & am not sure I even want to mess with it.
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