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Subject:Re: Fonts and Copyrights From:Michael Lewis <lewism -at- BRANDLE -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:31:48 +1100
Take a look at http://www.typeright.org -- this will give you solid
general info about font copyrights. The suggestion from John Wilcox for
locating TrueType copyright info is good; you can get info on a lot of
Type 1 fonts from the Adobe site.
Faith Wallis wrote:
>
> What are the copyrights on fonts? How would I find out about the
> copyrights on certain fonts? We were thinking of making some fonts
> available on our Intranet corporate-wide, but don't want to infringe on
> copyrights.
>
> What would be the "best practice"?
>
> Faith Wallis
> (used to be Faith Harvey...married Dec 29, 1997)
>
> PS: I will be putting up the info on correspondence Masters
> programs...have it compiled, just need to format...
> will be back with you when it is ready.
>
--
Michael Lewis
Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia
PO Box 1249, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012
Suite 8, The Watertower, 1 Marian St, Redfern 2016 http://www.brandle.com.au/~lewism
Tel +61-2-9310-2224 ... Fax +61-2-9310-5056
