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by jofzar 439 days ago
I can't recommend this video enough about how digitizing fonts work and how copyright works for fonts. It's short (5 mins) but is so wonderful.

https://youtu.be/J06tluN7rtE

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They forgot to add "...in the US". Some jurisdictions have more protection [1]. In practice though, it works as it always does: do what you want, you probably won't get sued, but if you do, it totally sucks - even if you do have the law on your side.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

Wonderful video, thank you! The one on the linked Nebula page is also great.

It’s funny - I subscribe to Nebula (a “boutique” video platform) and subconsciously have felt these things that are talked about in both videos, but I needed someone to point them out to me for me to consciously notice.