> If I use a commercial font as part of my website design, I am in fact publishing that font on my site and anyone can obtain a copy of it -- in fact, they auto

> If I use a commercial font as part of my website design, I am in fact publishing that font on my site and anyone can obtain a copy of it -- in fact, they automatically do merely by visiting my site! It depends on the file format. Commercial web font providers typically don't offer TTF or OTF formats but only (subsetted) WOFF. You can't use WOFF fonts with most graphics design software (although conversion to TTF is probably trivial). That's basically the reason why WOFF was invented as it doesn't have much technical benefit over compressed TTF files. The article on the other hand shows that lots of TTF and OTF files can be found on Github which is something the copyright holders certainly have a problem with.