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Re: Berthold bullies competing font producers – report here when you’re hit by them
Here is a description of the eight criteria used in deciding trademark infringement cases in U.S. courts, taken from a lawyer's manual: The test for traditional trademark infringement is "confus…2 -
Re: Merchant of Alphabets
Simon is quite correct. I have had experience with major publishing houses demanding rights payments on expired works. They will try to get whatever they can, even if they have no legal right to do s…5 -
Re: Merchant of Alphabets
Reginald Orcutt did not come to this subject out of the blue. His father was William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953), a prominent Boston book designer and head of a large book printing firm, the Plimpton Pre…3 -
Re: Books about the Didots
James, if you search the the Bibliothèque Nationale digital documents library, Gallica, you'll find nearly two hundred items related to the Didots, including many entire books and manuscripts. You'll…2 -
Re: The future of type
I think the proverbial Man from Mars might see all of the incarnations of typography as just mechanized writing systems of one sort or another. The gulfs between them are minuscule compared to the di…4
