Romney/Wisdom debacle
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- OSFA0
Ask Fairey...
- yurimon0
Does Campaign considered commercial?
- Is a political campaign considered commerical use?ETM
- it brings in hundreds of millions of $$$, I'd say yesmonospaced
- Regardless of what a campaign rakes in, if money is made then it's "commercial."hellobotto
- omg0
- omg0
What I cannot understand is what technology these guys have to prove a license wasn't granted to the designer in making these t-shirts. Did they just assume and post that their $30 wisdom font was stolen?
- they didn't contact the designer for commercial rights, that's howmonospaced
- jaylarson0
finally, a proper case of irony
- BusterBoy0
Seriously...this story is so full of "who gives a fuck". Big deal...
- omg0
I thought wisdom came with age.
- ebertzjaw0
shitty font, shitty tshirt, shitty candidate.
- TheBlueOne0
Can't wait for shepard fairey to make some sort of art with the typeface.
- utopian0
Horrible design and font, Mitt Romney is full of fail...
Mitt should stick to making toothpaste products!
- vaxorcist0
the headline had me trying to think of the connection between the first two words... while the third was obviously associated with the first....
- instrmntl0
Bummer. I want one of those shirts now.
- OSFA
The Romney campaign is investigating accusations of copyright infringement by a San Francisco-based type designer who claims the campaign failed to purchase a commercial license for a typeface used (Wisdom) in t-shirts sold on mittromney.com. It appears that the shirts have now been removed from the campaign's store.
The designer, James T. Edmonson, is the creator of Wisdom Script, which was used in the t-shirt’s design. The typeface, which is available as a pay-what-you-want download through the Lost Type Co-op, is not free for commercial use, and includes a license file which clearly states that commercial use is prohibited without contacting the designer. The designer’s website also contains a link to “Purchase a Commercial License”.