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Re:Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of... by zubat on Saturday February 04, 2017 @08:15PM (#13570165)
The boundary for transformation is established in several areas of media.

Recorded samples from the line out of a synthesizer are owned by the author of the recording, even if they're factory presets. Likewise, bitmap conversions of a vector font are the property of the game developers who made them.

In contrast, sample data copied from the ROM of a synthesizer is still under copyright, and original vector font files are owned by their authors.

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Re:Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of... by LocalH on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:56PM (#13582694)
Actualy, generally in the US, bitmap fponts are not copyrightable, nor are any pure image representations of the glyphs in a font. Truetype fpnts generally are copyrightable because they are small programs that generate the desired glyphs, and it's the program itself that is protected.
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