Re: Are licences needed for rendered bitmaps?

[Roozbeh Pournader]

I remember from somewhere that shapes of the fonts are not copyrightable
in United States. Only the program that renders them, and things like TTF
and PS Type1 are considered programs in this case. Because it's nothing
more than an "A" for example, and it's really bad to copyright an "A".

--roozbeh

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi!
> What are the legal aspects of copyright of a specific rendering of a
> truetype?
> I want to take some fonts, for instance Times New Roman, then make a very
> specific rendering, then put the bitmaps in an embedded, electronic (not
> a computer) system, and sell the system. The system will put the bitmaps
> together to form text, but will not know anything about truetype. Will I
> need one licence of each font for each system I sell? The rendering
> program is - of course - Freetype.