[martin_a]

The exact thing happened to us, too. Bought a font from a small foundry which then got acquired by Monotype two years down the road.

They started questioning us and assumed we had pirated the font. Send them the old receipt and told them politely to fuck off.

Never heard of them again luckily.

[aendruk]

Is there any legal obligation to send them the old receipt? I’d be tempted to just let them waste their time on it more.

[martin_a]

Not sure, probably depends on how resilient your company and staff is. :-D

Marketing got very nervous though and wouldn't calm down, so I sent the receipt.

[mattkevan]

First place I worked at where we got audited, Monotype presented us with a bill in the high six figures. It came as a surprise as the entire product and tech team had turned over at least three times since it was set up and no-one knew anything about it.

It turned out we had got licences, but not for anywhere near the billions of pageviews we were putting through.

We quickly switched the fonts to open source analogues and got the legal team involved. The final bill was much less than their opening bid but still a lot. It would have been much more expensive if we hadn’t had the resources to negotiate.