I don't feel your example is comparable here, but I'm interested in hearing maybe a different one that conveys your ideas better. The reason for my thinking is

I don't feel your example is comparable here, but I'm interested in hearing maybe a different one that conveys your ideas better. The reason for my thinking is that I don't see the problem in a foundry today building a font from a typeface that is neither commercially available, nor under any protection (or potentially even ownership). To me this is not comparable to dodging licensing fees from another foundry that is licensing a font. I actually feel that this foundry would be doing the design world a service by ensuring that pre-computing typefaces are adapted for modern use. Factually this process occurs frequently without controversy. As for claiming copyright: There is a significant amount of non-trivial work involved into building such a font, including a number of creative decisions that the typographer will need to make to address shortcomings as well as fleshing out the wealth of missing characters that are commonplace in contemporary publishing.