You wouldn't steal a font - except when you did by accident!

[LuckyBenski]

I've heard of IP being used without license accidentally before, or companies contracting someone and not realising they were given stolen materials, but this is great:

You wouldn't steal a font: Famous anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated typeface

The dramatic adverts, which compared pirating films to stealing cars, handbags and televisions, became a piece of pop culture history, with spoofs spawned for years afterwards.

news.sky.com

 

[Minusorange]

I always found it funny that the only people who would see the campaign are those who actually paid for the products

 

[No-One]

I think I read somewhere the the music in those ads was used without permission/licence too

 

[Diddums]

 

[antijoke]

This is hilarious

 

[mrk]

Theft and shrubbery.

 

[Mysterae_]

"by accident".

The long con is always the best.

 

[the shadow]

 

[MarcLister]

Ooof, that's awkward. And hilarious. Just had to be that anti-piracy campaign didn't it?

 

[Purgatory]

This will be them replying to Sky News...

 

[bazzabear]

This needs reporting. Someone call 0118 999 881 999 119 725...3

 

[Purgatory]

“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.

arstechnica.com

We contacted the Motion Picture Association (now just the MPA, sans "of America"), but they declined to comment.

 

[The_Arbiter]

I think I read somewhere the the music in those ads was used without permission/licence too

There were some articles around this a long time ago, but sadly it turns out it wasn't, and the internet was just doing its thing. It was funny while it lasted though.


There's an article on Arstechnica if anyone wants something that's probably more informative and less clickbait. Though i've not read the Sky article.

 

[Dup]

Oh that takes me back to some good old days of the internet. I loved building my own websites very early on, finding generators and tutorials for all the cool font effects.

Now I'm (almost) 40 and it's my career. I think the airport parking reservation world needs to bring this back. 100% conversion rate overnight.

"Stolen" a few fonts in my time too. Not commercially mind

 

[Felon]

 

[Hagar]

What use is a font, except to cool you feet in.

 

[Mysterae_]

What use is a font, except to cool you feet in.

Very important, it's where all the knowledge is stored.

 

[shifty_uk]

I worked with a guy whose font ended up on the album cover of a well known dance/pop artist. Not much he could do.

The corporations than own fonts such as Helvetica are very aggressive in terms of pursuing but small designers are a bit unfazed.