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Letter from The Martinez Group to Senator Schumer
The Martinez Group sends a worrisome letter to US Senator Charles Schumer requesting changes to the practice of the Copyright Office, which recently started requiring that each line of code in a font be written by the author. Martinez fails to mention that fonts are not software but just tables of data, and thus type designers can not seek copyright protection for fonts. It is interesting that the US Copyright Office even accepts demands for font copyright protection, but in any case, it seems like quite a difficult process today (August 2018). Martinez wants to see the burden of proof of authorship reduced. Scott-Martin Kosofsky's reaction points out that type design is art: Regardless of any automation of code lines generated by the font authoring applications, each line is the direct result of a creative and purposeful action taken by the designer, without which there is nothing. The application is, therefore, little more than a pencil, and to claim otherwise would be the equivalent of saying that no artwork can be original unless the artist makes her or his own pencils, brushes, or colors. |
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