FONTS AND TYPFACES-WHEN DO YOU NEED TO LICENSE?

Brands and designers often use existing typefaces and fonts to adapt and create logos, product packaging, websites, and other commercial assets that establish the identity of a brand. Whether these creative uses require a license from a font owner or type foundry is complex and depends on how the typeface or fonts are adapted and

Tangle, Inc v. Aritzia, Inc.: Copyrightability of Kinetic and Manipulable Sculptures

In the United States, copyright protection is afforded to original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. But what does it mean for something to be “fixed”? Must it be motionless? In the case of sculpture, can it be “fixed” if it can take on different poses? Here, Tangle, Inc.