Anand -– Original Message -– From: Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan To: Sent: Tuesday, J10:18 PM Subject: From Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan Dear Mr. Meanwhile, a group of interested people formed an organisation called Ganaka Parishath who followed these developments and started to bring pressure on the Government to address the issues of standardisation.AGREE to DISAGREE and we need to move on and correct the things for the sake of KANNADA BHASHE.
The conference was influential in making the Government understand the usefulness and the need of standardising Kannada for computing. Members of the bank made a presentation to the delegates on the advantages of using Kannada for its day-to-day computer transactions. The people invited to this conference included members of the Adivesha Co-operative Bank in who had computerised all the bank's transactions in Kannada by using a software called as Gistcard which was developed.
In order to address these issues, a conference known as Kannada and computers was convened by the Government. A group of researchers got together and started to discuss about these problems and brought them to the notice of the Government. Some other issues that needed attention was the standardisation of a keyboard for entering Kannada characters and also to see how Kannada can be used in other software apart from the then existing desktop publishing applications. Most foundries have very similar fonts derived from work largely designed by others. This leaves the door open in the USA to have anyone pay for the output of each character from a typesetter and re-digitize it or extract the design from a font program (and rename it), easily duplicating the design. 101), nor original databases, nor any other original work of authorship.” So, in a font, the name, any programming code not describing the font design are all that can be copyrighted. The digitized representations of typefaces are neither original computer programs (as defined in 17 U.S.C.
According to them there can’t be any original font style, because, every font is created by slightly modifying some other font, and there aren’t really “new” font designs! See the following excerpts from the law “The Copyright Office has decided that digitized representations of typeface designs are not registerable under the Copyright Act because they do not constitute original works of authorship. Here, the digital outline can never be protected.
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