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> Fonts are copyrighted, so any of the countless pictures of text you see online are infringing Font files are subject to copyright as code, but the resultant
by somebodynew 6y ago
> Fonts are copyrighted, so any of the countless pictures of text you see online are infringing
Font files are subject to copyright as code, but the resultant rendered character is not subject to copyright in the US [0]. This usually means that distributing a document with an embedded font file is a potential copyright violation while distributing pre-rendered text (such as a screenshot) is not.
[0] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf