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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow (automaton-media.com)
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[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago

Owning literal letters has got to be the dumbest shit I've heard in my life. Fucking leeches.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I remember back during the NFT hype cycle how people were claiming they'd patented particular shades of color and were selling rights to them on the blockchain.

I gotta wonder who even enforces this shit. Where do you go to register a font-type you claim you own that looks shockingly similar to a font people have been using since the printing press was invented? So much of this just feels like vexatious litigation. "Ah, yes, that's actually my 'a' and you need to pay me $20k to use it".

[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It really is fucking obnoxious. I do understand in some instances where there's some really cool font an ARTIST made but this obviously not the case. Just some snivelling pencil pushers that found a way to game the system and fuck people over.

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

They own a font, which is a way of writing the letters. Wondering though, how many Japanese fonts are there?

[-] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

They don't own "literal letters."

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

They just own the token which represents the ownership of the literal letters.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

oh fuck kill me the day we're gonna have to buy letter nfts instead of fonts

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