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Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
It is certainly important to keep in mind that the phrase “derivative work” is coming from copyright law, so it is best to use some other phrase if you mean those words in any other way. That is, any…1 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Not under USA copyright law, AIUI, IANAL1 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
I often feel like I’ve stopped designing type, so much of my work in recent years has been updating designs from my most prolific era—20 years ago. Back then, pre-Opentype, It didn’t take very long t…6 -
Re: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
I agree that new forms of two and three are fitting. To my eye your bold figures are a bit uneven in color (e.g. six and four look darker than five and two).2 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
Your first paragraph sounds like me. I created my first full, installable font in 1991 as an after-hours project while working as a graphic designer. I posted it online on CompuServe (if anyone can r…7 -
Re: Display typeface Silk road
I read "v1.0" as "rio"1 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Me: Nick: Indeed, but that has nothing to do with what you appeared to be talking about, which is variable versus static fonts in the context of typeface design as intellectual property. I would disa…0 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Guys, this is probably not a good conversation to have in a permanent public forum. if it's really a problem you're handing bad actors a blue print. Can we get a moderator to delete these o…2 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Also, I seem to recall that Minion and Myriad are examples of 30-year-old variable fonts with both copyrights and design patents, back when “variable” was called “multiple master.”0 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Nick, you claimed ‘The variable format has opened an intellectual property can-of worms’, but now acknowledge that no one has addressed the matter in a legal context. You further claimed, in alarming…0
