<div dir="ltr"><div>Good News:<br>Pablo Cosgaya asked Typekit to correct the Rosario page, and they have made the changes accordingly.<br>Now Omnibus Type is properly credited: <a href="https://typekit.com/fonts/rosario">https://typekit.com/fonts/rosario</a><br>
</div>+1 to Adobe/Typekit for fixing the meta-data.<br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/4 Thomas Phinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">LOL! I hope Dave is joking, but I worry that even if he is, folks might take him seriously. It would be a mistake to think that these lawsuits are a major profit source for font copyright holders, or a major part of Frank Martinez's business.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I've talked to most of the people Frank has represented in these lawsuits, about their lawsuits. I have also met with Frank on a fair number of occasions, including the last time I was in New York.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In recent years he has probably averaged ~ one such lawsuit per year. Pretty much all have settled out of court for undisclosed terms.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Given the amount of underlicensed and unlicensed font use out there, one lawsuit a year in the USA is nothing. Clearly, suing is being used as a last resort, when all else fails, and even then only in a small minority of cases. It should be self-evident that we would see a lot more of them if such lawsuits were a fabulous cash cow.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Many, probably most of the font copyright holders—who are generally type designers themselves—really do not seem to care for the legal action at all, and would much rather be designing typefaces or otherwise engaging in what they see as the “real” business of making and selling fonts. Sure, they don’t like seeing people/organizations with deep pockets “get away” with using their fonts without compensation, but most of them have long since learned that the amount of work involved in really chasing them is disproportionate to both any sense of victory they might get in the end, and to any financial reward.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">That being said, there are limits to what people can stomach. One very high profile case was reported as if it were a new incident, but the foundry told me that in fact this was the culmination of ten YEARS of dealing with the company in question and trying to get them to pay for the fonts they were using, and generally being ignored and blown off.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">T</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe these lawsuits are currently the most profitable business<br>
model for font copyright holders.<br>
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