I don't see permissions or license mentioned anywhere for the fonts they're using - is the copyright situation handled here?
Museo Slab on myfonts.com is $20 for 100k views per month for example.
Museo Slab on myfonts.com is $20 for 100k views per month for example.
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Museo-Slab
Generally we encourage people to notify us if font licenses change. Which they sometimes do. Which is a shame.
The whole font licensing business is crap, I can agree to that.
Considerably better rates than myfonts.com but still not free-gratis nor free-libre.
Their license is here: http://www.fontspring.com/fontface. You are required to use an alternate rendering of the font with all open-type parts removed that has been subset to the usage required on the site. This makes it quite easy for them to check if you're infringing they just download the font from your site and make sure it meets the license requirements, if not then they can sue you with impunity.
They can probably argue that if the domain holder on whois isn't the licensee then you're also infringing (see license term 6).
In short I don't think the copyright holder for Museo Slab offers their font/typeface for free and suspect anywhere that is offering it or using it is infringing copyright.
I chose Museo Slab as an exemplar, this is probably also true of the other fonts on that site.
we've finally found someone more clueless about new medias than RIAA?
1. work with font designers
2. work with OS distributors (ensure the fonts you sell will be visible on mac, windows, linux, etc) just like adobe did with PS/PDF and macromedia did almost by mistake with flash.
3. charge a flat fee from sites that use your font.
That way is infinitely easier to track than pageviews... and add real value for their online clients. And does not show that you're left behind as the world turns.
if any fount foundry uses that market plan, i require 10% of every character used by their clients, counting the ones deleted by pressing backspace before publishing. Paid in gold doubloons. Delivered on the back of a fully brown donkey.