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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=893
Adobe suing for right to embed fonts
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 4th 2002
Two of the company''s "font partners" are apparently seeking more money and they''re
using the DMCA to get it. Sound familiar?
Adobe has announced that it has filed suit in the US District Court (San Jose, CA) for
declaratory relief to resolve a contractual dispute that Adobe has the right to permit
its customers to embed ITC (International Typeface Corp) fonts in electronic documents
(i.e. PDF and other file types). Adobe is also filing an arbitration proceeding in
London seeking affirmation of the same contractual rights with respect to Monotype
fonts. Adobe attempted to resolve this matter informally with Monotype and ITC, but
was unsuccessful.
"Many years ago Adobe anticipated the shift to electronic documents. At that time, we
obtained the embedding rights from our font partners necessary to permit the creation
of electronic documents," said Jim Heeger, senior vice president, cross media
products. "We are now defending the rights we obtained for our customers to continue
to conduct business in the electronic age."
In addition, Adobe has asked the court to declare that Adobe''s popular Acrobat
product does not violate certain provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(DMCA) as claimed by ITC and Agfa Monotype. Adobe believes these claims are being made
so ITC and Agfa can gain leverage in the contractual disputes. Adobe strongly disputes
this claim and is asking the court to rule that there is no violation of the DMCA.
Analysis: That two no-name companies are claiming that contracts negotiated, signed
and, apparently, willingly followed by all parties for years are somehow governed by
the pernicious and vile DMCA smacks of a land grab to me.
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