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  • notdef
    notdef Posts: 168
    edited July 2018
    I, and I suspect many with me, consider horisontal metrics intellectual property. The recent X Grotesk with matching metrics to a certain German type designer’s high profile sans serif definitely affected my opinion of the publisher/designer in question.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,488
    edited July 2018
    My personal opinion: The whole concept of intellectual property is inherently misleading. Copyright, patent, trademark and other monopoly rights have different reasons to exist, histories, lengths, global uniformity/variation, etc etc, and have very little in common. It is impossible to reason about "ip" because it isn't a single thing, the concept attempts to link together such disparate things but because they are so different, nothing makes sense. For example:

    "a certain German type designer’s high profile sans serif"

    I think you mean a certain American software corporation's sans serif, that was made as work for hire by a certain Dutch designer living in Germany. 

    Which is to say, I think the concept of ownership is not as simple as some people like to make out, especially for intangibles.

    "The dead guys stole all our best ideas"
  • notdef
    notdef Posts: 168
    I think you mean a certain American software corporation's sans serif, that was made as work for hire by a certain Dutch designer living in Germany. 

    No. But I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more cases like this.

    "The dead guys stole all our best ideas"

    Bury me!
  • notdef
    notdef Posts: 168
    edited July 2018
    No need for splitting hairs about terminology. It is not hard to grasp the basic shittiness of pretending someone else’s work is yours. 
  • notdef
    notdef Posts: 168
    edited July 2018
    … and reusing someone else’s work without permission.

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