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Originally Posted by mzmm
if a proprietary font is either mangled or encrypted, or both, is that sufficient to permit one to distribute the ebook?
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No. Even mangled you're still distributing the font.
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Originally Posted by mzmm
and to follow up, are there e-readers that are incapable of decrypting or de-mangling(?) that would basically make including them in this way useless anyway?
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Yes. But the same can be said for CSS. The major readers on the market support embedded fonts and font mangling. Worry about where you want to sell books and what those stores support not all possibile devices out there.
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Originally Posted by mzmm
or are there particularities in the licence of the font itself that would specify the level of encryption legally required to embed the font in an ebook?
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Yes. License is the key word here. You don't own the font and can only do what the license allows. For example some font licenses have clauses that say you can distribute it all you want but you have to pay $1 for every copy.