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Originally Posted by Hitch
Hey, Cyb!
Always good to gab with you, no matter the excuse. Yes, I send my clients out to license the fonts, no exceptions. We deal in IP here all day, so we don't allow any type of copyright infringement--I just can't. And distributing the actual font file in an ePUB is clearly "redistribution," unlike using it in a PDF for, say, Createspace. So we tell them to either go forth and procure the license, OR, to go to dafont, fontsquirrel, etc., to obtain (or select) a similar font, which we use under that license. We embed the entire font in the ePUB, or, at least, whatever faces we need.
Does that help?
Hitch
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well it's interesting. I guess font licencing never anticipated such things as sony e-readers & PRS+ firmware.
so the traditional model is: publisher buys font licence then prints & sells as many books as they can.
that model presumably applies also to e-book publishers - publisher pays to embed font into ebook....
But now we have the option for readers to add fonts directly to their devices ( via firmware) & then do geeky stuff which cause them to appear in books.
I have never wanted to , but I understand that a truly enterprising geek could rip that font out of a paid-for book in which a copy is embedded, & re-use it.
How do you manage / licence / control that mess ?. If I bought the book, which contains the font, can I legally copy that font to a different folder on my device & apply it to other books - I suspect not, but I would not fancy having to write the controlling legalese for that situation.
also, I see that I have that linotype font thingie in Windows / MS office,( so I "paid" for it when I bought windows, or Office ) - so can I legally print & sell books written in Word, using it? When I convert my word doc to an ebook in order to sell that, do I cross a legal line somewhere ?
the Baen example, IMHO, neatly ducks this - in effect it says this book would look nicer in font X, so we've specified it as 1st choice in the CSS, but hey - getting the font licenced onto your device, dear reader, is your problem, not ours
PS I am not planning any blatant acts of piracy here, I am just curious about how it is all regulated