Daniel Benjamin Miller
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Re: Font and law in different countries
I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding, copyright law applies according to the law of whichever country the work is used in. For example, a work's copyright might expire in 2020 in Canad… (View Post)3 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
There are some great libre* fonts out there, and there is good work being done on libre fonts. There are fewer and fewer "freeware" fonts (i.e., personal use fonts of seemingly obscure orig… (View Post)3 -
Re: Another copyright question (specifically Germany)
(Not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice) The basic way this works in most regimes is that things are only protected insofar as much as there is new material.For instance, if I printed a copy of a Shak… (View Post)2 -
Re: Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English
You could play scrabble in Latin! Personally I would say I/J and U/V are acceptable distinctions to draw (and these are well sorted out for those who do distinguish between them). The letter W would … (View Post)1 -
Re: Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book
Considering the various examples which are known to not meet the threshold of originality (see Wikimedia Commons), I would say no. Apparently, there was a case, Boisson v. Banian, which dea… (View Post)2
