[OpenFontLibrary] epic fail: French Anti-Piracy Organisation Hadopi Uses Pirated Font In Own Logo

[Jon Phillips]

Oh, what a great story for the open font library planet.

Jon

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nicolas Spalinger
<nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> wrote:
> Chris Lilley wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> An object lesson in being sure that fonts are used within the terms
>> of their license. The design agency for Hadopi, the French agency
>> overseeing the controversial 'three strikes' law that removes
>> Internet access from households after three illegal download
>> warnings, itself used a copy of an exclusive corporate typeface
>> design made for France Telecom, stolen copies of which have appeared
>> on warez sites. (The other font used was also unlicensed, but is at
>> least *available* for licensing, and a copy was purchased some two
>> months after the logo went into use).
>>
>> http://fontfeed.com/archives/french-anti-piracy-organisation-uses-pirated-font-in-ownlogo/
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Oh the delicious irony...
>
> I also really hope the buzz around this will result in more people
> becoming aware of the need to always respect the upstream designer's
> license whatever it may be: libre/open or more restricted as an
> exclusivity for a particular entity. Never assume but make an effort to
> look at the metadata.
>
> More details on the font family itself:
> http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/Bienvenue/?lang=en
> and the upstream designers:
> http://www.typofonderie.com/profile
>
> BTW, glad to see that the W3C discussions around fonts have led to a
> recognition of the need for metadata: DRE instead of DRM.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
> Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
> http://planet.open-fonts.org
>
>



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