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Re: eStore Solution for selling my fonts
https://www.lttrshop.com/ https://foundrycore.tipografia.com.ar/ https://www.fontdue.com/ https://www.slonline.sk/portfolio/slonline-projects/elefont/ https://www.elefont.info/4 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Joyce, I was responding directly to your statement I do think that is piracy. I might agree it doesn’t make you the ‘pirate’, but the activity is part of piracy; indeed, without such activity, piracy…3 -
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
