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Offline afruff23

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Licensing for copyrighted fonts?
« on: August 22, 2008, 03:36:19 PM »
I am confused as to how copyrights work for copyrighted fonts. Can I convert a Windows font (which I legally own) to a Roxkbox format font and use it on my player for PERSONAL use? Or is that not allowed? I am not talking about uploading to this site. The font I specifically want to convert is Arial (unicode).
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Licensing for copyrighted fonts?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 03:41:30 PM »
Depends on the actual license terms of that font. Generally speaking though, many countries have laws that would permit you this personal-use format change and override license terms.
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Offline delt

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Re: Licensing for copyrighted fonts?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2008, 08:58:18 PM »
I'm not a lawyer, but if it's for personal use, i don't see any legal problem with this at all.

Then again, with microsoft you never know.......
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Licensing for copyrighted fonts?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2008, 09:01:37 PM »
It has nothing to do with Microsoft, and everything to do with the copyright laws in your locality and what sort of provisions they make for format shifting.
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