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“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts | Digging into archived site points to use of questionable text styling.


Digging into archived site points to use of questionable text styling.

Is there a chance that the creator of the PDF in question, working separately from the other creators of the awareness campaign video and website, used Xband Rough to approximate FF Confidential in just this single document? Without access to the master files for the anti-piracy campaign, it's difficult to say whether more than just a few supplemental materials were using fonts with dubious histories. James Aquilina, an intellectual property attorney and partner at the Quarles law firm in Washington, DC, said that most typefaces have difficulty overcoming the originality requirement necessary for copyright protection.

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