Crackman font – Trademark/Copyright question
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I am using the Crackman font from Typodermicfonts/crack-man/ and although the license grants use for banners and logos, I am concerned that certain letters and punctuation resembles Mr. PacMan himself. For instance, the uppercase C and the apostrophe. The client wanted to use a font that looked like the one used by Nameco for their PacMan game. This one does just that… however, I want to avoid any Cease and Desist orders and frankly I am too new to the industry to know the nuances of this subject. I have sent an email to typodermicfonts, but I wanted to see if any of you could help me out. Thank you
You can’t trust me to give a definitive answer, because I am simply not 100% sure, but: I wouldn’t worry about it. First: you did not design the font, hence you are not violating copyright rules if you use the font according to its license. Chances are the font author considered the copyright issue.
Secondly: there is such a thing as fair use of copyrighted material. If something similar to the source work is used for parody or a nod to it’s source, without misusing the copyright, no judge will rule in favor of the original author. Misuse is something like: making a game, calling it ‘pacboy’ and slap a similar font on it as pacman.
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