New Typeface for Yale
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A Typeface Fantasy
A Typeface Fantasy
10/28/2003 11:06 PM And this is where we dive right in to the pressing issues, the
questions that matter by god! The burning quandry at the forefront of
all of our minds is, of course, where in the world did they pull...
Can you copyright a typeface under US
law?
Can you copyright a typeface under US
law?
12/26/2004 06:33 PM
Xeni Jardin:
[
NSFNLG warning: Not Safe For Non-LawGeeks.] A
recent post on BoingBoing sparked debate among some readers about
whether or not U.S. copyright law makes it possible to protect
typefaces. Digital music guru
Jim Griffin maintains that
the answer is no. He points to Volume 37 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (
Link) as one
of several portions of US law that back his assertion. Snip from the
text of the law, with his comments:
"The following are examples of works not subject to copyright and
applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained:
(...) typeface as typeface" 37 CFR 202.1(e).
House of Representatives report accompanied the new copyright law when
passed in 1976:
"The Committee has considered, but chosen to defer, the possibility of
protecting the design of typefaces. A 'typeface' can be defined as a
set of letters, numbers, or other symbolic characters, whose forms are
related by repeating design elements consistently applied in a
notational system and are intended to be embodied in articles whose
intrinsic utilitarian function is for use in composing text or other
cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard
the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable
'pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this
bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H.R.
Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted
in1978 U.S. Cong. and Admin. News 5659, 5668.
It's also in accordance with a court case that has considered the
matter: Eltra Corp. V. Ringer, 579 F.2d 294, 208 USPQ 1 (1978, C.A. 4,
Va.).
The U.S. Copyright Office holds that a bitmapped font is nothing more
than a computerized representation of a typeface, and as such is not
copyrightable:
"The [September 29, 1988] Policy Decision [published at 53 FR 38110]
based on the [October 10,] 1986 Notice of Inquiry [published at 51 FR
36410] reiterated a number of previous registration decisions made by
the [Copyright] Office. First, under existing law, typeface as such is
not registerable. The Policy Decision then went on to state the
Office's position that 'data that merely represents an electronic
depiction of a particular typeface or individual letterform' [that is,
a bitmapped font] is also not registerable." 57 FR 6201.
Link to previous BB post.
Once there was a typeface called
Helvetica
Once there was a typeface called
Helvetica
12/02/2003 11:29 PM Arial or
Helvetica? Mastication Is Normal: Behind the
Typeface
Mastication Is Normal: Behind the
Typeface
12/04/2003 08:26 AMcheshiredave.com/mastication/2002/07/0037a-btt.html .. Behind the
Typeface: Cooper Black
[Flash]
cheshiredave.com/mastication/2002/07/0037a-btt.html
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Typeface brought to life
Typeface brought to life
12/03/2003 08:44 AM"Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black" is a long, hilarious video is a
spoof of the MTV "Behind the Music" show, tracing the history of the
Cooper Black typeface with font-otaku care and affection.
Link
(
via Electrolite)
NYT on Gotham, the typeface chosen for
the Freedom Tower's cornerstone
NYT on Gotham, the typeface chosen for
the Freedom Tower's cornerstone
07/09/2004 08:02 AM9/11 cornerstone typeface by Hoefler Type Foundry .. Rarely does a
font make front page
news
nytimes.com/2004/07/08/nyregion/08blocks.html?8hpib
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YALE
YALE
09/20/2004 06:54 AMYALE 2.4 released
YALE 2.4 released
YALE 2.4 released
09/21/2004 08:35 PMYALE is a flexible Java environment for machine learning and data
mining. Many nestable learning and preprocessing operators (including
Weka) are provided. Several new features where implemented for YALE
2.4. These are a LearningCurveOperator, StandardDeviationWeighting,
PrincipalComponents, WekaAttributeWeighting,
C45ExampleSource, Obfuscator, Deobfuscator,
CorpusBasedWeighting, and several XXXExampleSource
operators.
Bugfixes: data writing of the experiment log operator at
the end of the experiment, statistics plot is removed
at the beginning of a new experiment, Y45Learner (now
named DecisionTreeLearner) did not allow to create
unpruned trees, newline at the end of data files can now
be omitted
The new version and all YALE plugins are available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114160
Please send comments and requests to
yale-team@lists.sourceforge.net
Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP)
Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP)
04/14/2004 09:13 AMAP - John Kerry, Young Republican? Among the many activities listed
under Kerry's photo in the Yale University yearbook of 1966 is
membership in Yale Young Republicans. Both the Democratic presidential
candidate's campaign and the club's president at the time think the
listing is a mistake, if not a prank.
Tha Avalon Project at Yale University
Tha Avalon Project at Yale University
04/25/2004 04:35 PM
The Avalon
Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
Yale dating website - a little somethin'
on the side
Yale dating website - a little somethin'
on the side
04/13/2004 01:51 AM
So Yale students have a
dating website for those who are "matched, single, or
looking for a little somethin' on the side." Unfortunately,
the Yale College Council, which launched the site in February 2004, is
being accused of
stealing the
HTML code from a precursor site at Wesleyan, and the Yale Student
Activities Commission may have
ripped off
Weslyan's dating questionnaires. Happily, the Herald article
confirms that while the website might be in trouble, "the
courts will never shut down the most reliable dating hotspot at
Yale" -- the library.
Yale Conference Examines Michael Jackson
(AP)
Yale Conference Examines Michael Jackson
(AP)
09/25/2004 01:59 PMAP - Michael Jackson, frequently savaged in the tabloid press, was
picked apart by more rarified critics this week as scholars gathered
for a conference on the pop star at Yale University.
(comparatively) stupid white men at
Harvard and Yale
(comparatively) stupid white men at
Harvard and Yale
08/28/2004 11:44 AMA friend was asking me about some of her colleagues who had joined
Mensa and I said that anyone who hangs around a decent college is
already effectively a member because you only need a fairly low SAT
score to get admitted to Mensa (turned out to be 1250 if you took the
pre-1995 test and the new wimpy test for today's youth is not accepted
at all; see http://members.sh
aw.ca/delajara/criteria.html). Then I tried to figure out
what average SAT scores prevailed at colleges today and the Web search
brought up this
interesting page from a 1998 Brookings Institution report.
What I found most striking was the discrimination against
Asian-Americans at the elite old-line universities. Harvard is
the 2nd worst offender in this regard. An Asian kid has to have
an SAT score 65 point higher than a white kid to get into
Harvard. Maybe this explains George W's illustrious career at
Yale? (not listed in the table but presumably similar to
Harvard)
[Page
438 of the same study is also interesting. It concludes that
being black or hispanic rather than white at the "most selective
colleges" is "comparable to the effect of having ... a total SAT score
of 1400 rather than 1000". So if you are a generic white
family and want to get your kids into college it might be
time to go down to the courthouse and change your last name to
"Hernandez". The college admissions staff don't get deeply into
geneaology, do they? Just learn enough Spanish to say "Here is a
check for $40,000 to cover the first year of tuition, room, and
board." Then your kids could change their names back right after
graduation from their last degree, in order not to suffer
discrimination from employers who might think "they got in just
because they were Hispanic" and to conceal themselves from pesky
Alumni Association donation demands. With a system this heavily
based on race and name changes as economical as they are I'm surprised
that more families don't game the system. Perhaps there is a
business opportunity here...]
Yale University Manuscripts and Archives
Tutorial
Yale University Manuscripts and Archives
Tutorial
07/13/2004 05:09 AMYale University Manuscripts and Archives Tutorialhttp://w
ww.library.yale.edu/mssa/tutorial/tutorial.htmYale
University Manuscripts and Archives Tutorial. Using Manuscripts &
Archives: A Tutorial - An Instructional Tool For Finding Manuscripts &
Archival Materials at Yale and Beyond. This tutorial is designed to
orient individuals to the methods for locating primary source material
at Yale, particularly in Manuscripts and Archives, and to answer
frequently asked questions about doing research in our department. The
tutorial can also be helpful to those trying to find manuscript and
archival material in other repositories. The instruction provided is
of a general nature and cannot address all details and exceptions. For
specific requests, please contact the reference staff of Manuscripts
and Archives. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Yale Daily News produced with Macs
Yale Daily News produced with Macs
08/20/2004 04:48 PMThe Yale Daily News, the oldest college daily in the country, is now
being produced using Power Mac G5s, Xserves and iMacs...
M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to
Be Its Chief
M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to
Be Its Chief
08/27/2004 01:50 PMSusan Hockfield, a 53-year-old neuroscientist, is the first woman and
the first person from the life sciences to achieve the presidency.
"column on an interesting Yale study on
media bias:"
"column on an interesting Yale study on
media bias:"
07/04/2004 08:08 PMYale Students Accused Of Copying Dating
Site
Yale Students Accused Of Copying Dating
Site
04/27/2004 04:38 AMWell, here's a legal test for the students at Yale's law school... at
what point does imitation cross the line from flattery to copyright
infringement? Apparently, a group of Wesleyan students are accusing
some Yale students of
stealing content from their student dating
service. The Wesleyan students set up a special dating site for
Wesleyan students that tries to match up students by having them
answer a series of questions. They've since sold the program to other
universities, and even spoke with a group at Yale, though the
discussions never went anywhere. Sometime after that, the Wesleyan
students discovered a Yale dating site that looked quite similar and
appeared to include many of the same questions used by the Wesleyan
system.
Yale Students Replace Kazaa With Humans
Swapping CDs
Yale Students Replace Kazaa With Humans
Swapping CDs
02/10/2004 05:32 PMSometimes, there are tradeoffs between efficiency and privacy. Lots
of people have different ideas for ways to avoid getting sent an RIAA
lawsuit if they're sharing music, but a student at Yale has worked out
a system that isn't particularly efficient - but is much more
difficult for the RIAA to track down. It's a "file sharing" website
where
people set
up a time and place to meet to physically exchange CDs - which
each person can then go off and copy (or not). The article describing
the system appears in rival Harvard's newspaper, and thus they're
pretty eager to point out why this system might be illegal. Of
course, it isn't actually illegal. It's not even facilitating illegal
activity as the point is just to let people swap legitimate CDs, which
is completely legal. If they then go off and make copies, that's a
legal issue that each individual needs to deal with, but the site is
not involved with that aspect of the transaction.
MusicNet launches pilot download service
at Yale
MusicNet launches pilot download service
at Yale
04/27/2004 12:21 AMZDNet Apr 27 2004 5:10AM GMT
MusicNet Launches Pilot Download Service
at Yale (Reuters)
MusicNet Launches Pilot Download Service
at Yale (Reuters)
04/27/2004 12:26 AMReuters - Online music company MusicNet and
digital video services company Cflix on Tuesday launched a
digital music service for colleges and universities, with their
first agreement a two-month pilot at Yale.
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