On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:10:52PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > > The comparison is made to altering the ascii mapping -- but the ascii > > mapping is not copyrightable. It's just a sequence of characters, as > > valid as any other and preferred only because of broad adoption. > > > > Are these CMap files actually copyrightable as creative works? > > Glancing at them... probably not. This is sweat-of-the-brow stuff. Adobe is probably busy "lobbying" to get a certain bill passed which will rectify that little "defect" in U.S. copyright law. http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2857 -- G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will branden@debian.org | happen. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bob Church
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