NBC sued over type licensing
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- akrokdesign0
seams like a clear case for FB.
- formed0
Wouldn't it be the IT guy that screwed up? Could have been a 'hey, you there, get the creative dept. up to date with all current software". Obviously, someone screwed up and you can't imagine they don't have a policy for these types of things.
If it was some intern IT guy, I'd have a hard time believing a court would grant that kind of money with no proof of any damages. You can't just sue for a "I want to retire" sum of money with no basis.
Speaking of damages, they will need to sue for a lot of money as this will cause smaller clients to look elsewhere for fonts.
- era4O40
Oops. We've purchased all the fonts we've used for our work w/ NBC. :)
- era4O40
The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" logo was designed by Number 17
http://www.number17.com/According to this site:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfal…
- GeorgesII0
* waits until Adobe discovers NBC only bought one license of Creative suit
- hahaukit
- +1Invalid
- +2 HAHAHakrokdesign
- +3 I like to go along with crowdsTheBlueOne
- ninjasavant0
"In the meantime, you can look over the lawsuit—which was filed in Times New Roman, by the way—and exhibits below."
- shitehawke0
Thats pretty bad, but to be fair I wanted to purchase a Font Bureau font for work I was doing a few months back. I really wanted to use but due to the licensing I had to contact them rather than just buy through the website. After several emails I still haven't heard from them so I had to find a similar face and buy from a different foundry.
- Projectile0
FB are sure as dammit making it hard for us now.. any time we use a new typeface in the soft, faded, blurred background of something or at 8pt in the bottom corner, we're going to have to trawl through 20 emails of agreements and 50 pages of t's and c's and find out who has paid what to whom.. this sucks!!
I'm geting really sick of the suing culture! Sure NBC were kinda in the wrong there, but now every project manager is going to be so shite scared of this happening to them/ their client that we'll all be told "just use a free font like arial"
- baseline_shift0
I think FB is really trying to set a new precedent as far as font usage is concerned. Moving into an increasingly digital era, the use of designer typefaces is becoming more important.
The way i see it (and id bet FB as well) is that with the hundreds of lawyers employed by NBC, they didnt have one who understood font licensing. A broadcasting corporation of that size, using visual resources of all varieties should be aware of these types of licenses. They sure as hell pay for photos and stock footage.
More than just the money they are trying to collect with this lawsuit, they are trying to raise awareness about the use of type, and how they dont just materialize on the internet. Id bet most people in broadcasting dont even understand this. Id also bet that all the other major networks are scrambling to check their font licenses right now.
- "increasingly digital era" yeah cos HTML can use so many fontsBIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD
- digital ≠ html.baseline_shift
- vaxorcist0
Argh, I do get this, but the font company may be messing up the lives of alot of designers, as it may make some clients skittish about using fonts other than rather boring ones... I can see a "mindset gap" between designers who cherish the identity of a signature, unique font for a certain brand, and a client who says "whatever happens, don't screw us up like that" ... especially as in-house client staff may really not get the whole idea of font licensing....
- VectorMasked0
Good for FB.
- utopian0
On the brighter side of things, it looks like NBC will have plenty of design job openings soon... after they fire the entire creative team!
- +hektor911
- party time. lol.akrokdesign
- Not true. They took a 500 Million Dollar Budget Cut at the beginning of the year. I went with that.jteore
- moural0
While I understand the argument here, I always get a kick out of the language used in legal documents like this. It's like the crap I forced into papers during high school just to meet the page requirements.
How can you read that stuff with a straight face?
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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This will harm the font industry more than anything, look forward to any arsehole client who heard this opting for Arial for everything
- Invalid0
apologies if this is a silly queastion, but how did they know the font had been installed on several computers as apposed to one?
- good quest'benfal99
- common sense mostly, it takes a whole team to do all the work that was done... probably not sharing a comp.Sugary
- yep. Doubt a lone individual did all that work. If this dude does indeed exists, I'd like to hire him.VectorMasked
- font spies?TheBlueOne
- scarabin0
ruh roh
- jimzy0
everyone use copperplate
- era4O40
Did you see the complainant? OMG! I hope it's this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dj_…- complainant?monospaced
- I guess it really is a word.monospaced