This happens _all the time_. Bitstream, one of the very first digital foundries, got their start by digitizing famous print typefaces without permission (not th

This happens _all the time_. Bitstream, one of the very first digital foundries, got their start by digitizing famous print typefaces without permission (not that they needed it). Funny thing is, legendary type designer Hermann Zapf actually worked with URW to create knockoffs of fonts he'd originally designed for Linotype years before. Some of them even got open-sourced, which is why there's a free version of Palatino in the Ghostscript fonts (URW Palladio L).