CompuServe Messages

[Continued] During the hearings which led to the 1976 Copyright Act being passed the question of copyright protection of typeface designs was raised and rejected. Certain foreign companies such as Letraset do indeed print the copyright notice on their products (e.g. transfer lettering sheets) but unless there has been a recent change in U.S. law of which I'm not aware, this notice provides no protection for the type itself only the design of the sheet. [More]