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TIL In the US, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright but can be protected by design patent (15yr term, rarely applied for) Typefaces and their letter forms are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements.

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EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
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x45 TIL the USAAF filmed hundreds of hours of post-war Europe in summer 1945, most of which has never been seen. Special Film Project 186 has been called “the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time.”
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