People complain about the evil of landlords, but it's nothing compared to companies like this.
Landlords at least nominally provide some sort of ongoing services. There are no necessary services a font company could possibly provide - there's no maintenance, no upkeep, no ongoing costs at all. This is just pure, and purely evil, rent-seeking.
To be clear, there are some awful landlords out there. I agree with your point, but I don't want to diminish the dislike of many landlords.
Landlords province nothing to society, they are leeches who profit off others hard work simply because they "own the property" the worker lives on and takes care of.
Save a tree, axe a landlord.
This is not true at all. Good landlords also take care of the property, providing what is functionally a "home as a service" with none of the hassle of maintaining it.
There are bad landlords. Most rentals are owned by them. There are precious few that are not.
Part of this service is covering the risk of unforseen cost. Heating breaks? That may become expensive. You pay a monthly fee and don't have to manage risk and cost like that. Many people would be ruined if they had to cover that and repair becomes necessary, or face worsening condition.
As someone who owns my home (a moderately small 2-bedroom condo), I have tens of thousands of dollars worth of work to do to it that I really don't want to do. Nobody is going to do it for me.
Sometimes I wish I was renting ngl, but rent would be even higher than my mortgage for the same sized place.
that’s a weird way to spell housing scalper
As reported by Gamemakers and GameSpark and translated by Automaton, Fontworks LETS discontinued its game licence plan at the end of November.
The expensive replacement plan – offered through Fontwork's parent company, Monotype – doesn't even provide local pricing for Japanese developers, and comes with a 25,000 user-cap, which is likely not workable for Japan's bigger studios.
The problem is further compounded by the difficulties and complexities of securing fonts that can accurately transcribe Kanji and Katakana characters.
What is this even licensing? You can't copyright a typeface in Japan or the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces#Japan
Technically the .ttf file could be copyright as a specific means to reproduce the typeface, but someone could just run it through something to copy the shapes and then there's nothing to be licensed.
Japanese law doesn't consider font itself or the style to be copyrighted, but font files are considered "program" (it is very broad in jurisdictional sense, roughly translates to "digital data that produce products through computational process", and displaying letters on monitor is applicable) and thus fall under under copyright protection.
That's what I was saying with the .ttf file being copyright. It's entirely possible to generate a new "program" that produces the same shapes while being a brand new uncopyrighted program. There's an infinite number of ways to describe how to draw a shape, only the one in the original file is copyright.
IANAL but again, the program is not program in general sense. The regular "program" part here is ttf format and protocol around there, but protection goes over ttf data as a whole. It may be able to argue if such new font display system is developed and used, practically no gamedev/publishing industries want to reinvent the wheel and built the ecosystem from scratch.
Also, the infringement criteria is not necessarily on process but also end results similarity and intention in Japanese law. When intention comes up in argument defendant often provide proof they did not have access to the alleged source or its end product.
Notosans all the things everywhere? It’s a shame, but font users have an ethical duty to not pay these scumbags anything
Noto Sans definitely not choice for most of games.
Imagine having Elden Ring or Persona being served as Noto Sans. Even text heavy games, especially visual novel, use unique suitable font on main menu.
Nowadays, creating fonts is easier than ever, with widely available tools. Creating good fonts that don’t look like hot garbage and don’t make your eyes hurt after reading a paragraph is somewhat harder, though type designers graduate from courses every year. There are lots of small independent foundries selling fonts around the world, and consultancies that will design fonts on commission for brands. If Monotype are going to play the private-equity extortion game, they’ll soon find game companies commissioning fonts they then own outright from designers, or even hiring a few type designers with the usual intake of 3D graphics/texture/animation artists.
There are a lot of free fonts (open source in your language) out there that cost nothing to use.
Are you sure about this being true in Japanese? Open source culture over there might be different, and I don't think many Western fonts include Japanese glyphs.
It's likely, but I wouldn't extrapolate from my Western experiences in this case.
I'd bet it's easier (and probably exists) with Katakana and Hiragana, Kanji OTOH, maybe not.
Unfortunately there is a high level of complexity in some asian text, Chinese and Japanese kanji that are very similar have thousands of characters that are built in parts as far as i understood the technical site but are still annoyingly diverse, so you need a lot more than just lower, upper case, numbers and special characters
So then it sounds like somebody just needs to provide a font for applications that is a low priced one time payment and they would do pretty well. I wonder how difficult it is
Or kill copyright. Japan is nothing without that fascist slave collar^MET^.
Yes, I too love allowing large corporations to steal from independent artists and use their larger resources to take market share and all of the profit
… you know it is precisely copyright that allowed large corporation to form, right?
That's strictly untrue
Wait, you're serious claiming the opposite of the reality.
Large corporations predate copyright, including the west india trading company. So yes, it is strictly untrue. Not all business relies on copyright and patents to run.
Corporations created by government granted monopolies… Now, why would governments even entertaining the formation of corporations?
That's a different conversation. You're redirecting. My statement was as to that copyright is not necessary for large corporations. I'm still anti corpo. Without copyright large businesses would be the primary beneficiaries. They'd be able to freely do as china's factories do. They'd simply undercut the original inventers with their massive wealth, making the products cheaper(and often worse), selling more and amassing more money for themselves.
Without copyright large businesses would be the primary beneficiaries.
You merge or sue your competition to death for copyright violations first…
They’d simply undercut the original inventers with their massive wealth, making the products cheaper(and often worse), selling more and amassing more money for themselves.
Capitalism without copyright…
Yes,
Capitalism without copyright…
Capitalism is the issue. Not copyright. Why do you think copyright is causing the problems that capitalism is causing.
You merge or sue your competition to death for copyright violations first…
A nonsense statement when said in reply to what I said.
Because the monopolies that capitalism creates, created copyright in the first place…. The monopoly on who gets to form corporations or not is a feature of capitalism that copyright or not strengthens. If you cease copyright altogether, capitalists will still abuse others because the government lobbied them so.
Capitalism ≠ Laissez-faire free markets, but government owning the rights on who gets to issue bonds and debts. You can't form a corporation without their expressed permission, if not, you loose your status as a corporation.
Copyright was expressely created to control the free flow of information, so the King and his nobility could amass wealth + control. It keeps working precisely because folks want a class society: wherein the law protects them, but punishes everyone else.
You can't form a corporation without their expressed permission, if not, you loose your status as a corporation.
This is just wrong. It's not permission. You submit to their bureaucracy, yes, but that's guaranteed if you submit your paperwork correctly, it's not a permission.
Capitalism ≠ Laissez-faire free markets, but government owning the rights on who gets to issue bonds and debts.
This is not completely accurate. It implies it's a prior approval situation instead of a post-revocable situation which while similar are notably different. The government cannot revoke those privileges arbitrarily. There is rules for them, but those rules do not restrict who does so, they restrict how it's done.
Speaking broadly, a system where the king issues money, and controls said money, is not capitalism anymore than socialism is communism. When nobility exist and can arbitrarily set rules and taxes, that is not capitalism. That isn't to say either are good, they're both terrible systems. But the thing you described with a king is strictly not capitalism, it's a different evil.
government cannot revoke those privileges arbitrarily.
Ok, it's just ignorance on your part.
Speaking broadly, a system where the king issues money, and controls said money, is not capitalism
Cripes, your comprehension is just appalling. Next your going to sell me your follicles for your fealty to copyright governance with your level of dissonance
The fact that you linked 3 links that don't counter what I said is impressive.
It does, if u comprehend ðt private ownership of ð means of trade means exactly ðt ð Diet made ðmselves proprietors of ð font, & want ð developers to pay rent. But since you ðink ð yen was creatd by Monotype, ðn Laissez faire ur font away, dissonant trader.
Have the penalties for what you ratified for. 🎻
Yeah, Japanese copyright law for software seriously needs to be overhaul.
nah, the whole thing. authoritarianism needs to die.
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