Book People Archive

Re: Linotype gets heavy over free ATM font downloads

 
> [Moderator: Note that The Register and Linotype are in Europe,
>  where fonts and typesetting have some degree of copyright protection.
>  (Fonts themselves are not copyrightable in the US, though the software
>  that produces them is.)  Europeans may thus need to be careful about putting
>  online page-image scans of recent printings even of out-of-copyright
>  texts, if the recent printings are newly typeset. - JMO]

However, the reason for that is not that the fonts are copyrighted, as
they are only protected as fonts, not when used as intende (i.e. for
making books), the reason is that the typographic layout of books gets
some limited protection over here. Facsimiles are safe though, inspite
of copyright claims to the contrary.

Jeroen Hellingman