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The law sees in color, not black and white. If your beige tower desktop computer is talking to users on the Internet, a court can decide you should have used se
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
The law sees in color, not black and white. If your beige tower desktop computer is talking to users on the Internet, a court can decide you should have used server licensing.
- cxr 5y agoThis is the right principle to have absorbed from the article linked, but applied incorrectly. For either of the hypotheticals here, it would be possible to operate in the way described, subject to some constraints. There is no reason to think that the courts would perceive any legal imperative to recognize the distinction between server licenses or otherwise on copyright grounds. Companies can't invent law and say that it applies just because they wrote down how they'd like for things to work. The technical reasons referenced earlier are what make these hypotheticals untenable, not law.
- yuubi 5y agoI read the question as "what if the designer uses designer tools to make a PNG with text instead of HTML that calls for a fancy font, then posts that?" It seems like that should (in the US) work like any normal use of a font on a designer's pc^Wmac, and the image doesn't get copyright-like encumbrances from the font.
- hapidjus 5y agoExactly. I should have been more clear.