Re: ITP: ttf-japanese-kandata

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:16:01AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> What I've got of copyright law is that fonts (the actual shape) is not 
> protectable by copyright, at least not in the US. BDF fonts probably
> aren't protectable, because that's just description of the actual
> shape. 

Thanks for clarifying.

> So apparently Japanese and US law agree on the general points. What's
> the WIPO 1997 treaty, and who signed it? 

I read this in Japanese web page.  I did google search in English and
found following.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/acqpres/copyright/faq.html was good starting
point.  Also http://www.wipo.org is another.

Reinforce your points.  I could not identify exact resolution but there
seems to be something going on at WIPO for font.

Regards

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