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  • Re: Monotype foundry webinar on royalties

    They tried this with me (I was always on the old Bitstream contract). I refused and they did the deal as a one time thing. I laughed when I saw how little money it was—they tried to get me to sign th…
  • Re: Pricing

    @JoyceKetterer: Yes, but I think we collectively forget sometimes that the use rights licensing model of software is itself directly taken from the use right licensing model previously employed, for …
  • Re: Pricing

    Minimising risk has never been an agenda for me. Personally I seek it in various ways. Of course if you avoid risk, you'll stick to a traditional model. I spent many years licensing by use, and …
  • Re: Pricing

    @"Ray Larabie", exactly. Also this is a knife that cuts both ways. Sometimes someone will ask for a discount, say on an app license because they are "only using it for titles" and…
  • Re: Pricing

    We offer both: licensing based on company size (determined by annual revenue) and traditional licensing (desktop/web/social, app, broadcast). The company size license, which we call the “Simple Licen…
  • Re: Pricing

    @"Miles Newlyn" to be clear, Darden Studio is also brand focused. All our big sales are branding, never editorial or other. Even so, I think that if we had company size as the default we�…
  • Re: Pricing

    @"Stuart Sandler". I think everyone agrees those cases exist. Several of the foundries that do company sized licensing tell me they accommodate those customers in negotiation. I think the q…
  • Re: Pricing

    @"Thomas Phinney" basically, I think that company size as the default is attempting to solve the problem of small orders for big companies, which I don't think is nearly as big a risk …
  • Re: Pricing

    I agree 100% with @JoyceKetterer and in fact to put a fine point on it, I received a licensing request recently where the buyer is only interested in licensing for the integration of the use of the f…
  • Re: Kerning of serif font....

    I use this set up in the Preview Window in Fontlab ...