Timeline for What methods exist for determining if a font is similar or derivative work?
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| Sep 29, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | DA01 | @rebusB well, data can also be copyrighted. But in terms of fonts, I believe it's been traditionally seen as 'software' and, as such 'code' that can be protected. However, the cases of that are few and far between from what I understand. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | rebusB | Regarding computer code. Wouldn't the font just be data, not code? The code resides in the application interpreting the font data. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | DA01 | @moscarda typically you'd just open the fonts up on font editing software and look at the nodes. Pretty easy to eyeball it and tell if one font was just a manipulation of the other. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | Moscarda | Yes i am aware of the legal standing, and i'm not asking from a legal/moral standpoint. My views aren't relevant to the question of are there tools in use to detect if a font shares enough mathematical similarity to determine a common source. | |
| Aug 11, 2017 at 19:43 | history | answered | DA01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |