Font Licensing, Embedding, Piracy, And Copyright Liability
Not all fonts are free, and your license doesn’t typically let you share the font, only the finished product as an image/graphic. Failing to realize this can create a huge liability for yourself or your clients. As a Graphic or web designer if you need a free font check www.google.com
Subscribe to Diggnation! bit.ly And check out Revision3! – www.youtube.com The DJ of illicit mixtapes full of copyrighted music, Lily Allen couldn’t bear the abuse from her pro-piracy stance. Is ignorance a valid excuse for being a pirate?
February 2, 2013@ 3:03 pm
It would be better to explain in more detail what fair use is and how to prevent this type of infringement. At the end you say its not good to “steal” fonts but I don’t think that is the correct terminology. It is not that the font is stolen it is just this designer does not know that when they use this font on the webpage and makes it available to everyone to embed that it classifies as copyright infringement. So please explain this a little better about infringement and licensing.
February 2, 2013@ 3:33 pm
Can anybody use any font for a YouTube video or do they have to license that font first?
February 2, 2013@ 4:20 pm
If you don’t “embed” the font you didn’t violate the copyright assuming you had a license for the font to begin with (most font licenses at least)
Likelihood you will get sued… Well Considering the penalty would be $10k per visitor to your site… how much likelihood are you willing to risk?
February 2, 2013@ 4:40 pm
@BlackwaterOpsDotCom Are you aware of any lawsuits that are based on this issue? I’m interested in determining the likelihood of a small-time website getting taken to court over using a pirated font via the CSS “@font-face” embedding method. Also, isn’t there a difference between using this CSS method and simply using a font in a graphic (i.e., if a font is used in a graphic, the font file is not copied to the viewer’s computer, therefore no infringement has occurred, correct?)
February 2, 2013@ 5:09 pm
valid points
February 2, 2013@ 5:50 pm
That is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. Typographers spend a huge amount of time learning to create readable, stylistic fonts. Having a Graphic designer making fonts is like having my mechanic manufacture his own parts.
February 2, 2013@ 6:35 pm
As a graphic designer you should make all of your fonts
February 2, 2013@ 7:13 pm
An *image* of all the characters
February 2, 2013@ 7:26 pm
Yep. When a font is sold, you are buying the rights to use and display that font, but not to redistribute the file. It would be pointless to buy a font and not be able to use it.
As long as you don’t provide the means for someone else to type something in that font, you’re usually fine in the font developer’s licensing. An of all the characters contained in the font would be in violation, since someone can recreate the font in it’s entirety with that.
February 2, 2013@ 7:30 pm
it is a very amateur mistake but is very common! the reason why i avoid these special fonts is compatibility, like you said each computer needs the font package to display it properly.
February 2, 2013@ 8:01 pm
should use your own. then you won’t be sued for copyright! like they said while i took classes. its alright for educational use.
February 2, 2013@ 8:15 pm
No, RyGuy has it right, you can make logos, and Graphics, but they can’t contain the Font File, only the image or vector
February 2, 2013@ 8:56 pm
My day rate is $1500 plus travel.
February 2, 2013@ 9:05 pm
I think that would vary wildly from software to software, but generally if you make an image when you have legal access to the font, the image is then legal to distribute.
February 2, 2013@ 9:49 pm
What if the font is with a specific program and i use a trial, is it fair to use this font still and if no, how am I supposed to know?
February 2, 2013@ 10:41 pm
Anyway, you never share working copies of anything. Only flattened images. In the case of a website you either need your proprietary font as an image, or stick with something free (and preferably common to avoid forcing people to download the font in question.)
February 2, 2013@ 10:42 pm
I had graphic communications and we designed a few things in adobe indesign on macs and I copied all my stuff to a flashdrive on the last day, when I got home I installed the free 30 days trial of indesign on one of my computers (running xp, plan to upgrade to 7 soon) and when I opened a file for a 2012 calender we made got an error that one of the fonts was missing, but it still looked fine
February 2, 2013@ 10:45 pm
Really?
February 2, 2013@ 11:14 pm
As a Graphic Design student I even know that you can’t embed proprietary fonts…
You have to rasterize or vectorize them first so they appear as an image.
February 2, 2013@ 11:36 pm
Silly bint.
February 2, 2013@ 11:45 pm
(old news now, but…) title says pro-piracy blog, while in the vid they say she deletes her pro-copyright blog. Obviously, these are two opposite things.
February 3, 2013@ 12:15 am
Oh man…Metallica. I stopped listening to those guys with the Napster fiasco. I was listening to straight J-pop and vidya gaym muzak back in the day, and they made it significantly more difficult to find even -that- music. I’ve never gone back to listening to them since.
February 3, 2013@ 12:54 am
this show sucks. and why is the guy from myth busters here. you guys seriously sucks off dogs for Skittles.
February 3, 2013@ 1:53 am
would you guys die if you put down the laptop for a second while you’re recording this shit ?
rationalized <- realized is written like this
February 3, 2013@ 2:31 am
Get to the point, speak clearly, don’t stutter, and be prepared.
February 3, 2013@ 3:18 am
wtf they r trying to look smart with the laptop
February 3, 2013@ 3:49 am
That faggot cannot read at all.
He trips all over his words and randomly replaces words.
February 3, 2013@ 4:37 am
No….that’s what she did..
February 3, 2013@ 4:49 am
She was pro piracy until she started making money then she thought that since it was her stuff that she might not be getting payed for, she thought it was wrong.
February 3, 2013@ 5:41 am
I guess the way I feel is… They made the money… however they did it…. it’s theirs.
The greed is one thing, but if they make the money fairly and wanna blow it, that’s their business.
February 3, 2013@ 6:20 am
i’m a mac, and i’m a pc
February 3, 2013@ 7:17 am
why does the title of this vid refer to lily deleting her pro-PIRACY blog? Bit misleading don’t you think?
February 3, 2013@ 7:29 am
they need to have an idea of what they are videoing first, huh… I thought the blond guy was dumb but thet both seem pretty, eh.
February 3, 2013@ 7:45 am
Learn to read dude…. seriously. You read at a primary school level.
February 3, 2013@ 8:09 am
Learn to read dude…. seriously.
February 3, 2013@ 8:20 am
Really should have practiced before reading it on camera. This is actually just a conversation.
February 3, 2013@ 8:32 am
Really should have practiced before reading it on camera.
February 3, 2013@ 8:46 am
Wow, you find any excuse to release some stress dont you? go masterbate!
February 3, 2013@ 9:43 am
Do a search on joss stone and piracy… joss Stone rocks
February 3, 2013@ 10:15 am
oh wait i just got that you got my joke and were expressing your gotterage.
February 3, 2013@ 10:20 am
ok!
February 3, 2013@ 10:25 am
hehe, let’s change identities
February 3, 2013@ 11:12 am
I’d like to see these studies. Never heard such things.
February 3, 2013@ 12:03 pm
I’m a pc. And I’m a mac.