intellectual-property licensing
Legality of the use of commercial fonts available for free from uxfree.com
<p>I am interested in using the Futura PT family of fonts in a web application for the company at which I work.  I initially found Futura PT listed on fonts.google.com, but the font wasn't available for free as it just had a link to monotype.com where it could be purchased.</p>

<p>However, I found Futura PT on a website called UXfree (<a href="https://www.uxfree.com/dload/462559/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link to download page</a>) where I could just download it for free.  Would this free version be legal to use internally at a company?  An outside company made our company's public facing website, which uses the Futura PT fonts, and I don't know how they licensed it.  I was hoping to use Futura PT in the web application to give a look consistent with our public website, which in turn is consistent with our branding.</p>

<p>Can I legally use this freely downloaded commercial font in a non-public web application the company will use internally?  Or am I required to purchase it?</p>

<p>I sent a message to Monotype about this matter.  Here is what I wrote:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>I found Futura PT from fonts.google.com which sent me to fonts.com where I could buy Futura PT for $30.  However, I found the font available at this site: <a href="https://www.uxfree.com/dload/462559/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.uxfree.com/dload/462559/</a>
  Are they violating the law by providing the Futura PT font for free?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>And here was the response:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Yes, they most probably are - thanks for making us aware of it. We will forward this to our legal department.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>If you buy something from a thief, you don’t own it - it doesn’t matter that what the thief stole was intellectual rather than physical property.</p>
