On Nov 25, 2003, at 18:04, Don Armstrong wrote:
I'm not sure that Fiest v Rural Telephone can lead us down this road.
It doesn't, not at all.
Assuming the font is a work of authorship (which many large or relatively large bitmap and TT fonts are) claiming a copyright on it is an entirely reasonable thing to do.
No it isn't. In what is probably one of them few times Congress said "no", it did so in the 1976 Copyright Act.