Font Usage Rights??

Question

There is a set of fonts that come standard with Creative Cloud. Things like Arial, Myriad Pro, and Gabriola and dozens of others come with Creative Suite.

Before you talk about Type Kit, none of the fonts I'm talking about were downloaded from Typekit. There are dozens of fonts that are in the applications without downloading them from Type Kit. Those are the ones I'm asking about.

I am wondering about Commercial Rights (creating things for sale using the fonts), Embed Rights (Can I embed them into a PDF document that is for sale), Video Rights (Can I use these in a video to promote a commercial product). I'm sorry but I cannot find what I'm looking while searching.

THANK YOU!!

Abambo · Answer

Fonts that came with Creative suite may be used as long as you own a license of Creative suite.That also means that they are bound to the computer that is "licensed" for CS. Even if you are now using CC, as long as you have a CS license you are allowed to use those fonts, except if the use is limited in time. I cannot remember such a condition.

Fonts licensing is done on a per font basis, a font foundry basis or on a font supplier basis. Most fonts, except the open source fonts, restrict installation and distribution as font files.

Commercial fonts come with limited rights attached. We have bought a special font pack for use inside of our company. That font pack comes with a license for 5 computers. So it can be (legally) installed and used only on 5 computers.
Most fonts allow for embedding (ie in PDF documents) and if they don't, kick them, because they are virtually useless by today's standards. That is a property of the font file and can be queried.
A lot of fonts allow you also to transfer the font file together with the original document (ie Indesign) to a service provider (ie a professional print service provider), so that this provider can realise what ever work you commissioned. The service provider is not allowed to use the fonts for other operations.
Some fonts can be used with your websites.
Most fonts can be outlined and then modified for use in logos.
All fonts can be printed on items for sale (t-shirts, mugs, ...). A font that would not allow that is useless as printing something is the intended use of a font. This is also true for videos. Fonts are not embedded but rendered and are part of the video frames. This is the most basic use of a font.
No font can be distributed on unlicensed computers. If you want to use a special font you need to acquire the license for all computers that need to use that font. For such uses I take Google Fonts when possible.

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