Reply To: Crackman font – Trademark/Copyright question

You can’t trust me to give a definitive answer, because I am simply not 100% sure, but: I wouldn’t worry about it. First: you did not design the font, hence you are not violating copyright rules if you use the font according to its license. Chances are the font author considered the copyright issue.

Secondly: there is such a thing as fair use of copyrighted material. If something similar to the source work is used for parody or a nod to it’s source, without misusing the copyright, no judge will rule in favor of the original author. Misuse is something like: making a game, calling it ‘pacboy’ and slap a similar font on it as pacman.