richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (06/24/88)
More stuff on ``who owns that font name''. When I get a test page from my PostScript printer, it tells me what fonts I have, (all three of them) and that: ``Times and Helvetica are registered trademarks of Allied corporation''. Ok. This tells me that those names are trademarked. So I have this letraset catalogue, that has all these font samples, and some have, what I suppose is a company name attached to them, some don't. For example, _Arnold Bocklin_ has none, which I assume means Bocklin is not a trademarked name. Others have wierd names attached to them: Augustea Open has ``Nebiolo'' attached to it. A typehouse ? Yet others are more obvious: ITC Avant Garde says ITC below it. Now what I don't understand is why it doesn't say ``ITC Avant Garde is a registered trademark of ITC Corp''. It doesnt say it anywhere in the book. I got the new Adobe type catalog in the mail today (nice, REAL nice) and they have a (tm) or (R) by all the trademarked names. The only little designations in the Letrast catalogue is for some fonts, owned by letraset, that say (C) 1987 Letraset. Sheesh. What are they copyrighting ? They can't copyright the font design, and you can register the name as a tradenark, but not copyright it. Anybody have any idea ? So whats up with Latraset ? -- "Oh great. I have no mouse. And I must click." richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (06/25/88)
|The only little designations in the Letrast catalogue is for some fonts, |owned by letraset, that say (C) 1987 Letraset. Sheesh. What are they |copyrighting ? They can't copyright the font design, and you can register ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |the name as a tradenark, but not copyright it. Oh no, not this topic again. Depends on what country you're in. Go ask a lawyer. None of us are likely to offer you more than opinions. Ken
benjamin_kuo@pedro.UUCP (Benjamin Kuo) (07/01/88)
Maybe they're copyrighting the collection of fonts (in a family), like Compuserve copyrights its complete collection of files that are uploaded. Could be?