Jari, and list:
Since I was pressed for time, rather than looking up the actual cost of the license for the full "Tekton" font family, I guessed at both how bit it was likely to be, and how much it would likely cost, at maximum, and used those numbers as the lower of the estimates. My guess at the family size was 8 members, and the guess of the cost was $25 USD. I know there are font families with fewer members, but there are families with more. With WP 2k, Corel offered 20 members of the Futura family. As to cost, I remember seeing a font family priced at $200 dollars per member, though the font did not interest me enough to see how many members of the family there were. If it had happened that this price was for the Futura family (and I don't mean to say that it was) the cost for the complete family would be $4000.00! The amount I suggested as the cost of obtaining the license was intended only as a reasonable first guess as to a typical top price for a full family.
But this was not the main point I was trying to make. The fact is that if one is sued in the U.S. National court system, and this is where a case about copyright infringement, or licensing of computer software, would be tried, the cost of defending oneself, from just fees alone, not to mention the cost of hiring representation, would be several hundred dollars. If one hires an attorney knowledgeable in copyright law as cousel, a price of $200 per hour of time would be a reasonable guess as to the cost of the attorney's time. So my point is, if one is going to use a font as the house font for a publishing venture, and the font is one which an antagonist could make a case was being used illegally, it might well be cheaper just to have purchased a license in the in the first place.
WRT Dennis' response to my comment about a font being copyrightable, a font is explicitly not copyrightable under U.S. statute, but it may be copyrightable in other jurisdictions. For example, I understand fonts to be copyrightable in France. There is also the fact that in the U.S., the case law is not settled on the issue of copyrightability of fonts, and there are those who are seeking to have these copyrightable, too. But again, from an economic standpoint, if one uses a font and is sued for infringing a copyright, it will very quickly--in a matter of hours (of legal time) have reached a pouint where it would have been cheaper just to have bought the license.
ns
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