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Re: Legal Question about font usage

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From: Neil_Keller
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:24
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Andrew, 

      What I want to know is, if I pay the $65 to buy the font, am I allowed
      to use it (and package it) in our game.




Only if you don't mind buddying up with Apple's attorneys for an expensive retreat to the courtroom. Fonts, as Herb says, are protected intellectual property as much as any computer application or a broadcast transmission of "CSI".

The "five end-users" refers to five separate installations on five computers or devices connected to the same network and printer. Please understand that when you purchase a font, again, like any commercial software, you are just buying a limited license to use it; you do not buy the software itself.

What you can do is use a representation of the font in your game; such as for text or for graphics; but you cannot use the font in any way where it can be extracted as a working font.

If you have further questions, you should consult an intellectual property attorney -- which you probably already have on your to-do list to protect your game -- your own intellectual property.

I hope this helps.

Neil
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