Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Florida
I am selling letter stationery online. I designed them with my own art. The stationery has a picture and a quote. Since I designed the page on the computer, the text is in a computer font. It just occurred to me that maybe the fonts are copyrighted by microsoft. Is such a thing true? I searched, but can't find this answer.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Without doing any research, I am going to make an educated guess and say that your letter stationary is copyrightable in itself, and it is not a derivative work of the Microsoft Office Suite. If your stationary is in something like "brushstroke" or some other pretty font offered in Microsoft Word, and you have a license to use the software, I think that is exactly what the software was intended to do, and that is not copyright infringement. If Microsoft has an option to buy their software for commercial purposes vs. personal use, you may want to look into buying the additional license.
Caveat: Other/additional facts could drastically alter my opinion.
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