100gf says, “Dutch type foundry Typotheque has filed a lawsuit against the people behind Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign website, claiming that the site allegedly uses the Fedra font without permission.” If Typotheque’s charges are true, this is yet another case of a Republican who doesn’t respect the integrity of intellectual property.
Admittedly, the suit doesn’t name Santorum’s campaign or Santorum himself, but it’s surprisingly easy to picture Rick Santorum as a font thief (for some reason, I picture him dressed up like the Hamburglar). Of course, if Rick Santorum designed his own website, he would obviously use Comic Sans everywhere, except for the “Meet Rick and Family” page, which naturally, as a reflection of the serious and loving nature of Santorum’s relationship with his family, would be tastefully rendered in Papyrus.
Santorum a font thief?
Pawlenty a video bandit?
and Cain a Pokemon plagiarist?
Tough times for the GOP.
Re: #1: And don’t forget Perry was outed as a pornography-funder.
Not a phrase you want to hear:
“font of santorum.”
To be fair, intellectual property is an oxymoron, like Christian science. Magician can’t pull a rabbit out of his hat without putting it in first. But I’m sure the artists will disagree, cause work sucks.
I’m no fan of Perry, but seems to me this is a smear campaign worthy of right-wingers. You can get porn darn near anywhere these days; if he invested in Amazon.com I suppose they’d be calling him a porn merchant, too? There wasn’t a word about pornography on the Movie Gallery wikipedia entry when I looked at it the other day – they did a huge volume of business renting mainstream media, but people trying to capitalize on this act as if it was a porn company. Now wikipedia has an item (no doubt placed by a democratic party operative) that looks as tagged on as the happy ending version of Brazil. And since when did liberals become so blue nosed about sex? And so cozy with the American Family Association? When it’s convenient, of course.