IPR quandry
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The topic is more than just "would you". it's about where you stand on IPR. I know we are being the internet protagonists, but do you really take yourself so seriously?
Even if you had a licence for every font you owned, how about a font that is based on another. Do you delete these from your system? Would you leave a restaurant if you believed their lampshades to not be licensed? I know for a fact the cut of your clothes was stolen from another. Why should such a strong view apply to one thing and not another. Because copyright taken to the Nth degree would be crippling, it's just not practical now.To sell something as an original is fraud.. To pretend you have talent like Mr b@ash is a different matter altogether.
I've spent the last 7 years living in a culture where everything is copied. I don't just mean sticking an apple logo on a calculator and calling it an iphone. but entire BMW's and water. There are a 1000 rip offs but only one original, this doesn't weaken the brand value of the original, it strengthens it. This is the difference between copy and fake, and this isn't a divide many people make.
There is too much weight on ownership. The world has changed. Why should a design for a single piece of plastic be protected forever? Why shouldn't you have the right to buy any shape bit of plastic you like?