PSPx6 - Commercial Use

[gdbug89]

I bought the new PSPx6 with the intention of using it commercially. I am concerned about the "ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO USERS OF CLIPART, STOCK PHOTO IMAGES, VIDEO CONTENT, AUDIO CLIPS, FONTS AND SAMPLE CONTENT:" clause which includes the following:

: You may (i) incorporate any Images or Clips, Font Output , or Sample Content into Your own original work and publish, display and distribute Your work in any media, provided You include a copyright notice in Your work reflecting on the copyright ownership of both You and Corel as follows: "Copyright (c) 20___ [Your name], Corel Corporation and its licensors. All rights reserved."

Am I understanding correctly that I cannot create a commercial work with words using fonts without giving Corel copyright to my work???

[LeviFiction]

Only stuff that Corel has provided to you. I don't think PSP installs any fonts for you. I know it says Font Output but I don't see as they can copyright that.

I can't say if this applies, or if it's legally binding but the GNU organization wrote this into a their faqs concerning the output of a program and your ability to force users to release that output under the GPL.

In general this is legally impossible; copyright law does not give you any say in the use of the output people make from their data using your program. If the user uses your program to enter or convert his own data, the copyright on the output belongs to him, not you. More generally, when a program translates its input into some other form, the copyright status of the output inherits that of the input it was generated from.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput

[gdbug89]

Thank you, LeviFiction, but I'm not sure whether that would either. The following links to the EULA online: http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index.jsp?pgid=800340 and the word "fonts" is not included there; "Fonts" is included in the EULA reached under the PSPx6 Help button though. It seems to me that the inclusion of the word "fonts" is meant to hamstring users.

[LeviFiction]

The link you pointed to at the very bottom describes what Font Output is and what Font Software is considered to be copyright owned or licensed by Corel. Any fonts that are installed by PSP and either owned or licensed by Corel is what they are referring to in their EULA.

They cannot force you to include copyright information just because you used a font. It has to be specifically fonts they own or lease and have installed on your computer.

If you want to make sure to avoid this you can purchase, lease, or download opensource fonts that give you the look you want and use those specifically. Or use fonts that you know Corel didn't give you. "Arial" for example. All the traditional basic ones that come with Windows.

[gdbug89]

Apologies -- I gave the wrong link. Here is the one I meant to give to the Corel (R) USER to USER Web Board: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=24497 As of 2:52 AM 4/26/14 the EULA at the link says:


"2. COREL GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF CLIPART, STOCK PHOTO IMAGES AND SAMPLE CONTENT:
Corel products may contain numerous clipart, photo images and sample content such as forms, templates, Paint Shop Pro "tubes" or similar items (collectively referred to as the "Images") which are either owned by Corel or licensed from a third-party. As a user of Corel products you are free to Use, modify and publish the Images as you wish subject to the restrictions set out below. If you are uncertain as to whether your intended Use is in compliance with the Guidelines set out below, Corel recommends that you seek the advice of your own attorney or legal counsel. Corel will not provide you with an opinion as to whether your Use is in compliance with these Guidelines.

2.1 YOU MAY, subject to any restrictions set out in Sections 2.2 and 2.3 below:
(i) incorporate any Image(s) into your own original work and publish, display and distribute your work in any media, provided you include a copyright notice in your work reflecting on the copyright ownership of both you and Corel as follows:
"Copyright (c) 200__ [your name] and its licensors. All rights reserved."; and
(ii) make one (1) copy of the Image(s) for backup or archival purposes. "

The EULA is dated August 2006 and the post is dated Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:22 pm .

[LeviFiction]

Yup, still referring specifically to anything provided by Corel. All output takes on the license that the content given is distributed under. So fonts, clipart, stock images, tubes, vectors, if they are provided by Corel and you use them you need to give credit where credit is due.

If you use someone else's fonts, clipart, stock images, tubes, vectors, give credit where credit is due.

Essentially nothing you shouldn't already be doing even with free software.

If everything you use is purely your own creation, or provided under a license that doesn't require acknowledgement, then there is no need to include the distributer in the copyright EXIF information. Just be aware of the license the content is distributed under to know your rights and responsibilities.

But in answer to your initial question, font output specifically is not copyrighted, only use of copyrighted fonts provided by Corel is. So just know the license under which you are able to use the font that you use. But, again, I don't believe PSP distributes fonts with it.