quinta-feira, 31 de janeiro de 2013

Depoimento de Ed Benguiat sobre direitos tipográficos

      Carlos,

In the USA you cannot Patient or copyright any analog alphabet design. (Europe you can). In the USA you can Patient or copyright digital Proprietary information like a (digital font.). If a font is designed for a Client (usually it will be  digitized - and a kerning program will also be made. and a record of sale will always be available. It is up to the client to see that no one steels the disk and copies it. Unfortunately it gets stolen. Of course no one would try to sell a font that was made for a client. Stealing Propriety information is punishable by jail and fine. But designers have been known to  some how get it and the either use it for a job of their own, or modify it as one could do with any existing type then call it one they've designed.  This goes on all the time, that's referred to as Piracy. So much has been written and said about this --- but piracy seems to be now a big business. Confused ? so is everyone. but the artist suffers at the end.

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