Questions:Marketing department said:It is unclear to me where we need to place the copyright information, but in my view this would not be in any marketing materials we create. Marketers use licensed fonts all the time and I’d never seen a copyright notice for a font on marketing material.
[The copyright notice] can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
Thanks!
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So I think the copyright notice clause only applies if your marketing department distributes the font files, but not any materials using the fonts.
In case of embedding the fonts in some materials, e.g. a PDF file, the original copyright notice of the fonts would still be intact if somebody extracted the fonts from the PDF.
Thanks, I've emailed him. Also interested by two of the bugs:
People don't read EULAs because they have a preconceived notion of what legal documents are and that they are hard to read. Complexity doesn't keep people from reading EULAs because they largely don't get far enough to know if the document really is complex.
Complexity is amorphous clauses about "large volume" use or similar, rules with caveats or exceptions, hard to understand concepts, or disconnected ideas that require memorization.
A simple request to credit the font designer is superfluous but it doesn't add complexity.
The problem with complexity is that it is a tool used by crooks and scoundrels to trick people. Everyone knows this and so even when those of us who mean well allow ourselves to be complex we sow mistrust. Trust is very important in a negotiation so it's best not to throw it away before one even starts. Since a lot of the people who read a font EULA are doing so as a first step in a license enforcement settlement the goal of a good EULA should be to make sure that person reads it and doesn't think it's complex and confusing.