Monday, January 25, 2016

Fontmakers sue Hasbro for illegally using their work for My Little Pony

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As it turns out, not everything can be solved with friendship. According to TorrentFreak, toymaker Hasbro received a suit from a typeface company that alleges the company used their font, without a license, for its ‘My Little Pony’ brand. The suit from Font Brothers, which offers fonts for sale under a general distributed license agreement, alleges that their ‘Generation B’ font was used in multiple products — both online and on product packaging — without an upgraded license. According to the company’s ‘Support’ page, only limited uses of the font are covered in the retail license for it, and additional actions…

This story continues at The Next Web

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