Adobe gets burned by the DMCA

Adobe Systems, which famously used the DMCA to get Dmitry Sklyarov arrested last year, has found itself on the other side of that law. It seems that a couple of font foundaries, ITC and Agfa Monotype, have invoked the DMCA in an attempt to shut down the ability of Adobe’s Acrobat software to embed fonts in PDF files. Adobe has now filed suit in U.S. District Court asserting its rights to embed the fonts, and asking for a declaration that Acrobat does not violate the DMCA. What goes around comes around…but if enough situations like this one come up, we might eventually get some serious pressure for changes in the DMCA.


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