Question: For all Foundry owners

Supherb
Supherb Posts: 4
edited June 7 in Type Business
After researching other Foundries, I've noticed nobody puts any age requirements into their ToS or EULA. For anyone to enter into a legal binding Agreement, they must be of legal age, otherwise the contract can easily be considered Null and Void. 

Also, the common Licensing model for most Foundries seem broken (e.g. per computer, per user, etc.), as there is no way to really prove how many computers or users will be actually using the fonts.  I'd assume, a "Per Project" licensing model would seem easier to police, and simpler to prove if someone violated the Agreement, no?

Hope I am not over thinking here. Would love to hear your thoughts or experience on the subject matter.
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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,408
    [Not a lawyer, and this is not intended as legal advice.]

    There’s no point putting an age requirement within a EULA because, as you say, such an agreement can be considered invalid simply in law (and legal age may vary by jurisdiction).

    The usage rights type/limitations model is not ‘broken’ because it requires a measure of trust and is not trivial to audit and enforce. That is true of all manner of legal agreements. Licensing models need to balance the interests of the parties, and if you lean too heavily on ‘easy to police’ you can end up with a license that no one wants to purchase.

    A per project license is certainly possible. The usage rights licensing model used for fonts (and lots of other software) is derived from that used for creative works like illustrationa and photography. In those fields, it was relatively common for works to be licensed for use in particular projects, in a specific ad campaign for example, but there still tended to be quantity restrictions involved. What is different about fonts is that people want to use them for any and all text, not just for what can be conveniently delimited as a ‘project’.

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