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Old Today, 12:30 PM   #1
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Legal status of ebedded fonts in ebooks?
As far as I know, publishers, and/or authors of ebooks need to license the fonts, or use open source fonts. What about end users? All the fonts included in ebooks are regular font files that can be used as fonts in other programs and readers.
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As far as I know, publishers, and/or authors of ebooks need to license the fonts, or use open source fonts. What about end users? All the fonts included in ebooks are regular font files that can be used as fonts in other programs and readers.
I wouldn't use an unlicensed font for commercial/business/public purposes. I'd imagine it's probably not that big a deal to use a font to read a book it wasn't licensed for, for your personal use only.
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And most embedded fonts in ebook that are not open source, have been either subsetted (to both shrink size and make them not useful as a regular font) or have been obfuscated by one of two possible font obfuscation algorithms.

In both cases, outside of the epub they are embedded in they are not useful.
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