tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 02 10:23:14 1996
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Re: Klingon CD-ROM!
- From: David Barron <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon CD-ROM!
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:22:18 -0700 (MST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "William H. Martin" at Apr 2, 96 08:29:15 am
>
> According to Matt Gomes:
> >
> > The only real big disappointment was that, as I was looking at the
> > screens, the pIqaD was wrong. I asked if they decided to do that
> > for "artistic" things and the lady (Cheryl) said that she didn't
> > KNOW that the pIqaD had sounds associated with the characters and
> > that she wished she knew!
> >
> > How did we let THAT slip though?
>
> It didn't "slip through". It was intentional. Paramount owns
...snip...
> My own take on this is that the man IS an artist of merit who
> is extremely busy and enough of a control freak that he does
> not want to hand off the lettering of any part of any set to
> anyone else.
Also, as Lawrence discribed to me, copyright laws forbid ownership
of a font. i.e., one cant make a font and profit from nor control
its use. Therefore as long as it is an art form and not a font (therfore
not treated like a font) Paramount can control it.
>
> > -majIQ
>
> chaq qep'a' wejDIchDaq maghomqa'.
>
> charghwI'
> --
david
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