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Coming Soon: Fonts from Monotype Imaging

2 pointsby friggeriover 12 years ago

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lutuspover 12 years ago
&#62; Coming Soon: Fonts ...<p>Great -- another effort to turn something that's until now been free, into a paid product.<p>Stay tuned for the first effort to claim proprietary ownership over a large class of fonts that have until now been free, or worse, a "Look &#38; Feel" lawsuit about competing fonts that aren't distinguishable to the eye of a trained observer.<p>This is likely to be like icons all over again -- are icons property? Legally, yes and no. How about square boxes with round corners?<p>More to the point, will people actually choose to buy fonts when equivalent fonts are available in the public domain? A business like this can only prevail by suing anyone willing to give away products that resemble theirs. Like Apple is doing now. Like Microsoft did years ago.