CompuServe Messages

I posted a message on the lawyers' forum asking for more information on copyrights, etc with regard to font designs. The responses so far have not been particularly enlightening (but since when do lawyers come up with "yes or no" answers…). I'm still at a loss to explain why Cg created Helios (a very bad cut of Helvetica) when they could have just copied the original and renamed it. From the sound of one of the lawyer's responses, it seems that individual letter forms can be protected under a design patent. Perhaps that's the *real* protection under US law that prevents wholesale copying of font libraries. I'll keep you posted on whatever else the legal eagles come up with.