I have just published a draft of the most difficult chapter of the ATypI history, on the association’s “Code Moral.” The Code was a core document of ATypI from its founding, although the first official version wasn’t adopted until 1963. The discussions and arguments around it from then until its final abandonment in 2004 are an important part of the history of ATypI. In this chapter I haven’t tried to deal with every aspect of the subject typeface protection; I have focused on the Code Moral itself. Other aspects of that long and largely ineffective history will be dealt with in future chronological chapters.
As always, this is a draft, and both corrections and additions are very much welcomed. (Not rants, please. Those have been expressed many times in the course of the years. I have not tried to document all of them.)
Just as a note: there is no ‘e’ on “Moral.” English-speakers tend to add one, probably because it sounds the same as the English word “morale,” but the French word “code” is masculine, not feminine, and is spelled with no ‘e’.