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Subject: regarding the free font download for the contest

ficticious opened this issue on Apr 25, 2003 ยท 22 posts


ficticious posted Fri, 25 April 2003 at 8:04 PM

umm, it doesn't matter if you own the font. I don't. The font is said on the page itself to be Phenixamerican. Phenixamerican is a copyrighted font. You offer a vector traced version of this font. An .ai file can be converted into a font set, even if it only contains a few characters of that's needed. This would be a duplicate of the Phenixamerican font. What if I took something you made. Say I took the upper right corner of an image, exactly 25% of the image. What if I were then to resave it as a tif file. Then I'll put it into Adobe streamline and convert it to a vector traced file, and save it as .ai format. Would you then mind if I just gave it away? What if it was from a piece of art you were charging money for? Point being, you may be the legal owner, but I'm not. That's like me saying, well, I own Adobe Photoshop, so while I won't give you the whole program, I will give you all the sample files and filter sets included so you can use them with say GIMP or Paint Shop Pro... giving away a small part is still giving away a small part of something that is owned and distributed by someone else, in this case, a very large company called AGFA under it's subdivision AGFA-Monotype.