John wrote: >On 1/25/2016 8:06 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> steve harley wrote: >> >>> On 2016-01-25 16:20 , Igor PDML-StR wrote: >>>> I know that some PDMLers are interested in the copyrights issues. >>>> >>>> I thought that this story is rather interesting, given the scale of >>>> the product: >>>> https://torrentfreak.com/my-little-pony-sued-for-using-a-pirated-font-160125/ >>> >>> what's amazing is that Hasbro could have avoided this altogether by simply >>> avoiding use of the font on its website without picking it apart, that >>> seems to be the only place where the actual _font software_ has been >>> distributed (versus the visual images made by that software, not subject to >>> copyright) >> >> In Europe, even the visual images made by the font software are >> subject to copyright. >> > >I note at the end of the article there's an update indicating Hasbro has >removed the font. > >Does that affect Font Brothers copyright claim in any way? That doesn't >erase Hasbro's prior infringement does it?
Not in the slightest. If anything, it demonstrates that they know they were in the wrong. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
