The secret history of font piracy
So apparently the font used in the ubiquitous “you wouldn’t steal a car” meme was actually pirated and everyone laughed at the irony but there’s a much bigger history of font piracy that goes beyond that which Linus Boman examined.
Copyright is obviously a thing but there’s something of a grey area when it comes to how to copy/resell fonts without direct permission from the creator.
Font related: a visual and oddly political history of the Wingdings font and Departure Mono: a free monospaced pixel font inspired by old command-line