Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)
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- From: Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@mccme.ru>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 04:19:25 +0300 (MSK)
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27-Nov-03 05:24 Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2003, at 11:15, GOTO Masanori wrote:
>> So it's hard to make Japanese characters which have beautiful shape
>> and unified baseline because each form is complex, and there are a lot
>> of such complicated characters.
> Well, at the risk of starting a flame war, that says more about how
> screwed up the language is than about the copyrightability (in the US)
> of a work. The amount of work doesn't really matter; the amount of
> creativity does. See, e.g., Feist v. Rural Telephone.
And only creativity whose result is separable from utilitarian aspects
really matters.
> In fact, before the 1976 act, typefaces were copyrightable in the
> United States. Congress chose to change that.
Huh? Eltra was decided under the 1909 Copyright Act.
Sasha
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