Will using some fonts in the site constitute an infringement?

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Author: User

Recently the company's website relates to font infringement; The boss is annoying ....

I looked it up on the internet and summed it up as:

The Web site's CSS is written in the font calls from the client user's own computer fonts, so will not constitute infringement, but if your site above the logo, there are some posters, topics, and other pictures above the use of those fonts, and for the purpose of commercial use for profit will constitute infringement.

Selected a number of users to answer:

If you use the text font as set in your code, it does not constitute an infringement. For example font-family: "Microsoft Jas Black", does not constitute infringement.
If used as a design image, use Microsoft Jas in the images used in the website, and without granting the right to use the font, even if it is infringed.
It is only used by small companies.
In addition Microsoft Ya Black Copyright is not Microsoft, is founder

As far as I know, if you buy a font from FZ online for commercial purposes such as trademark design, you will have to pay an extra fee.
Because according to the current laws and regulations, the contract can limit your use of the font.
Therefore, more worry about the practice, in italics, boldface and other conventional glyphs (need to make adjustments), or re-design of the WordArt.

The so-called "tall tree Catches", "blow" is also to see the object, no oil and natural can be "spared."
Use in italics, black body and other designs used more mature, the manufacturers of different glyphs, and because of the wide application, so will not provoke trouble.
Although it is generally accepted that FZ's practice is unreasonable and illegal, the "big Tree" is as cautious as possible before the "equity" of the font is actually regulated.

5 floor friend said "tall tree catches" is very sensible, if the customer's propaganda is visible throughout the country, that in the use of fonts (picture material is so) when it is good to be careful, and if it is some small companies, the risk is small. I have been in this situation, our company lost some money (fortunately, did not deduct my salary). Font, material of the copyright party also see can catch compensation will be investigated.

Nothing to do with genuine
Take the upstairs "float" a case, the font is genuine
Nothing but founder confiscated the "commercial use" of the pen
So now the font license has been added to the relevant terms
Just want to enact regulations and standardize bandit logic as early as possible

Will the use of Microsoft Jas in the website not constitute infringement?
Will the use of Microsoft Jas in the website not constitute infringement?
If you use "Microsoft Ya Black" in the font of the website, in the CSS font-family (that is, only when the system is the default), not in the image and design, will not infringe?
I did not think about this question before, very interested, so I did a search.

In the properties of the Microsoft Jas font file, we can describe the EULA (end User License agreement) as:
You could use this font as permitted by the EULA for the product in which this font was included to display and print content . You may have only (i) embed this font in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions included in this font; and (ii) temporarily download this font to a printer or other output device to help print content.

English:
You can use this font to display or print content according to the EULA for the product that contains the font. The following two scenarios are included:
1. When you want to use embedded fonts, you need to follow the embedded license of the font;
2. Temporarily downloaded to a printer or other device for printing documents.

Without mentioning the use of CSS to define fonts on the Web page, on Google, Microsoft for the Microsoft Jas font Licensing aspects of a Web page, which provides a contact to ask questions about the font licensing, and then sent an e-mail inquiry.

Two days after receipt of the reply;

According to this reply, we can use fonts on personal or commercial workstations. The main limitation in the EULA is that fonts are not allowed to be installed on the server, cannot be called using CSS @font-face, and font files cannot be modified or distributed as part of the software. These require separate authorization.

An adobe article understanding Web font Licensing can be found online, which says Adobe has similar usage rules for fonts.

So, we use body{font-family in CSS: ' Microsoft Yahei ' is within the legal scope of use, and is not allowed to introduce font files in CSS in a way that uses @font-face.

This also reminds us that the introduction of Web fonts on Web pages through CSS3 's @font-face is risky, especially for commercial websites.

For personal sites, if you want to use Web fonts that are legally licensed, you can access these:
http://webfonts.fonts.com/
https://typekit.com/
Http://www.google.com/webfonts

Interestingly, a reply message was received a week later, as follows:

Dear Haiyang,

Thanks a lot for your enquiry. Sorry for keep you waiting.
After checking, actually does not need a license to include the font name in your CSS, because it's only calling on the System font already existing in the end user's computer, which does not need any extra license.

However, if you wish to know more on the licensing of this font, you need to contact Microsoft because they own the COP Yright of Yahei.

Should you has any queries, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Janet Lau
Sales Executive

Central idea: After verification, you don't have to worry about using font names in CSS because it simply invokes fonts that already exist in the end user's own system, which does not require any additional licensing.

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Will using some fonts in the site constitute an infringement?

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