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Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"Miles Newlyn" The best results we got out of Adobe was via the Adobe Type UI public petition that I started with Yves back at ATypI in 2014. You've described the problem quite well, and t…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I’m going to disagree with that and suggest, contra, that even if you were clearly licensed to use a given font, obtaining a pirated copy of it (i.e. a copy of the file being distributed from an unli…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"c.g." I'm not a lawyer but I know that sometimes in law an act is not theft without "actual malice". That is to say if I rob a bank for the exact amount they have charged me in …3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"Christopher Slye". You'll remember that, back in the day when you were the head of Adobe fonts, I asked for an edit to the Adobe terms of use? That edit would have expressly empowered fou…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"c.g." When I read "classic piracy" I interpret that to mean a person who sets out to steel and knows they are doing it. That's not what this is. What this is, however, is one mo…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I wrote a lot of that licensing FAQ for Adobe and played a large part in the licensing policies with the service after the Typekit acquisition. (And like John H., I was part of the working group that…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
By the way, part of Typekit’s pre-Adobe terms of use allowed a Typekit subscriber to create and host kits for client websites. IIRC we scrubbed that from the terms around the time the service changed…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
This is perhaps a more important topic than classic piracy because it involves much more potential buyers.1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Since switching to subscription, Adobe is being showered with money, hiring some more people should be an easy thing to do.3 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
For me, font ID has always been kind of a gestalt thing, like recognizing someone's face. Even so, I do rely on certain unique attributes for some typefaces, like that dreadful R in Arial. These tend…3
