From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> I could point out that "Swede" means not only "person from Sweden",
> but also "turnip"; therefore, encoding "Swedish" would be embarrassing
> and should not be done.
My point was that the connotation of mystical, imaginary things, things not
of the real world, is inescapeable. Even *in* The Lord of th Rings, Sam and
Boromir are both shown as examples of Hobbits and Men who know little of
elves and they approach them with a bit of awe/wonder and skepticism. If
Tolkien had this mentioned in his BOOK, its not unreasonable to realize
people might be skeptical in the real world.
> > In any case, the fact that Tolkien's estate does not enforce the
copyright
>
> There is no (U.S.) copyright in the mere appearance of a font, nor in
> a particular bitmap realization of it.
The point was brought up by others about how there was no issue since the
estate encourages it.
Reminds me of how much the trademark holders of the compression in GIF files
suddenly turned around and made what was free into something you had to
license. And please do not correct me about the differences between the two
cases; I know them. I just wanted to mention that assurances of
encouragement are not necessarily enough.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
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