<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div>Firstly, I am not a lawyer nor am I legally qualified. Such knowledge as I have of copyright is as a result of me being, a publisher (on a very small scale, yet legally a publisher nonetheless), an author, an inventor and, just at a hobbyist level, an artist.</div><p><br></p><p>Lorna Evans raises, by quoting from a document, the issue of copyright issues in relation to encoding of newly invented characters in Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646.</p><p><br></p><div><p>>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">It has been suggested that the copyright on at least some of these texts be voluntarily withdrawn, in order to allow for the encoding proposal to go forward in the UTC and with ISO, on the grounds that for implementation to proceed a script cannot be copyrighted.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Is it true that a copyrighted character, or symbol, with a glyph example, cannot become encoded in Unicode even if a free to all irrevocable licence of right is published as a matter of record?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">In United Kingdom law many things get copyright automatically at the instant of being recorded in a permanent form.</span></p><p><br></p><p>So what to do if a newly devised character is invented in the United Kingdom and the glyph is designed in the United Kingdom and were to be proposed for encoding in The Unicode Standard?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">William</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p></div></div></body></html>