The Last Time the US Considered Copyright Protection for Typefaces
Typographica
OCTOBER 7, 2018
The United States has the dubious distinction of offering no copyright protection for the design of typefaces — at least not in their visual form. 1 With the advent of digital fonts, type manufacturers found a way to protect their intellectual property by submitting typefaces for copyright in a format the government did accept: as font software, the computer instructions for placing the points and drawing the curves.
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