Advice needed. Commercial use of font I made?
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:50 am
Hey all.
I need some advice.
Someone's asking to (commercially, but I'm not sure how "commercially" that would be yet. I'm guessing 'use on a Tshirt in some online shop") use a font I made.
General question for if in the future this happens again.
- what are the going rates for commercial use on Tshirts/posters/business stationary/etc ?
Specific question in this case.
It's a font that I made from screenshots from the TV series House from the writing on the whiteboard, so it's Hugh Laurie's handwriting.
link to font
I made it available for free years ago, and I'm sure a lot of people have downloaded it, and used it for things.
(It's also one of the first fonts I made, so not quite up to my current standards, but that's another story).
Possible ethical/law problem: I didn't exactly (nor could I) ask permission to do this (did snail mail the font to 2 confirmed fanmail addresses but as kinda expected never heard back ).
Since it's not my handwriting, am I even the person to give the permission for commercial use?
If 'yes', do I also decide what kind of use is OK (I'd hate to see it on something offending etc..)
I need some advice.
Someone's asking to (commercially, but I'm not sure how "commercially" that would be yet. I'm guessing 'use on a Tshirt in some online shop") use a font I made.
General question for if in the future this happens again.
- what are the going rates for commercial use on Tshirts/posters/business stationary/etc ?
Specific question in this case.
It's a font that I made from screenshots from the TV series House from the writing on the whiteboard, so it's Hugh Laurie's handwriting.
link to font
I made it available for free years ago, and I'm sure a lot of people have downloaded it, and used it for things.
(It's also one of the first fonts I made, so not quite up to my current standards, but that's another story).
Possible ethical/law problem: I didn't exactly (nor could I) ask permission to do this (did snail mail the font to 2 confirmed fanmail addresses but as kinda expected never heard back ).
Since it's not my handwriting, am I even the person to give the permission for commercial use?
If 'yes', do I also decide what kind of use is OK (I'd hate to see it on something offending etc..)