1/26/2024 0 Comments Pirate fonts for word for freeThis pipeline might work for creating a font that is "inspired by" the available glyphs rendered in the credits of your favorite film.īut downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet? I can't imagine how any sensible court system would not consider that a derivative work.įunny, I asked here on HN just a couple of months ago why nobody has done something like this: The font file is delivered to the browser and that copyrighted file is used to render the glyphs. They're _rendered from the copyrighted font file_ to the browser. The missing step here is that the glyphs for a webpage are not embedded in some sort of rendered image or physical medium. > This got me thinking, as all things do, on whether I could simply scrape the internet for public, non-creative, non-trademarked use of fonts So long as you’re not stealing the creative work, like the advertisement, itself, the shape of each letter is in the public domain. > The key point here is that the shape of the glyphs themselves, for example, non-trademarked text posted on advertisements or products with printed text, are not copyrightable. Fun to think about, have personally gone down this rabbit hole before, but I'd be surprised if this was permitted by courts.
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