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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
But what also concerns me is, you buy an e-reader and like the fonts, they are a part of your deal..then whitin an update Kobo can decide to take away fonts,that are there at the moment you bought it.
I do understand that most fonts have copyright and that you don't own it,but when you bought it,you got a license to use it that was paid,which Kobo can take away from you..
Is that legal ??
Take something away and just say, you got an other simular back ??
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Considering you've only 'bought' a licence, then yes.
And you'd be hard pressed to make any legal case you've lost anything of any value if fonts are changed.
But perhaps, the reason these fonts were substituted was technical? I believe they're Chinese and Japanese language fonts - so perhaps they give better results with those languages.
And fonts disappear and reappear on readers firmware all the time. The early Kobo firmwares have different fonts.
Considering that firmware revisions are only taking away the fonts that are part of the system, and not side loaded - its a non-issue