Comments on: Typeface Licensing, For Those Who Think Music Licensing is Easy.

By: MNteractive » Blog Archive » A Proposal to Create the YouTube of Typefaces

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:09:19 +0000

[...] Yes, this is an extension of a post I wrote 18 months ago: Typeface Licensing, For Those Who Think Music Licensing is Easy. [...]

By: Garrick

Garrick — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:50:39 +0000

Darrel posted on sIFR a while back. Mark, thanks for tying these two posts together.

By: Mark Notermann

Mark Notermann — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:09:36 +0000

Sorry about the mangled tag above. Also, I realize itâ€™s not exactly on subject, but I thought sIFR might find an interested audience here.

On the subject of licensing, I’ve been slowly compiling research on how to create a system similar to public performance royalties in the Music industry.

It would allow someone the ability to pay a sliding scale (based on their needs) single license fee annually, and with that license, have access to most vendors fonts.

By: Mark Notermann

Mark Notermann — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:56:14 +0000

Hey, Iâ€™m still learning the ropes of GD and dabbling into Interactive, but have you heard of ? I have been paying attention to type issues for a while and this actually seems new. Not Perfect, but not Bad. As I said, Iâ€™m new to interactive, so the implementation is a bit over my head. It seems there would be some well qualified folks among you at this site to try it out.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:59:42 +0000

Not only have we lost it*, but many of the major foundries have not crippled it, putting in arcane and ultra-restrictive licensing gotchas…no PDF embedding, no online embedding, etc.

(* I consider embedded type up there with VRML and the like. A great idea, seemed very useful for designers, but, in the end, wasn’t really that important for the edn-users, so never caught on.)