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Limitations on protected by copyright font usage for commercial targets
<p>I want to use the "<code>Arphic PRond-Gothic</code>" font for my commercial web-site.
Because it was initially installed on my computer (or it was installed with certain soft automatically, anyway I did't bought this font), I can to reason that it is not requiring payment font. If check the font file info, it reads "<code>Copyright 1994-1999. Arphic Technologies</code>".</p>

<p>Is it legal to use this font on my commercial web-site?</p>

<p>You are allowed to ask browsers to render text in the font. But, if their computer doesn't have that font installed, the browser will not be able to.</p>

<p>See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-family-prop" rel="nofollow">the CSS specs</a> for how this works.</p>

<p>However, you are not allowed to <em>distribute</em> the font, as that would be considered reproduction, and a copyright violation.</p>

<p>As Dawn said correctly, the first hurdle you have to skip is technical and not legal: It's not a trivial matter to make the computers of other people use a font for your website that they most likely don't have. </p>

<p>You are not allowed to distribute the font <em>if you don't have a license that allows it</em>. Licenses for many fonts are not <em>that</em> expensive. If you cannot find any license, then it is foolish to assume that you have a license, and if you make that foolish assumption and then get sued for copyright infringement, a judge will not be happy if you tell him or her that you assumed you could just use the font. </p>
