There are still some spots left:
27 May 2024 | 12.00 - 17.30
at BNO Amsterdam
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DEMYSTIFYING FONT LICENSING
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In this workshop with the Darden Studio CEO Joyce Ketterer @joyceketterer End User License Agreements (EULAs) will be discussed from both perspectives, as a type foundry protecting their work, and as a font user utilizing fonts for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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BNO members | € 25
Non members | € 75
— https://www.bno.nl/event/demystifying-font-licensing-923/register #Advertisement#Workshop#EULA#Amsterdam#BNO
I'm a bit sad. I've tried to bring people over to #Mastodon with what are good arguments to ME: #NSFW content creators will eventually be shadowbanned or booted off a platform as soon as there is advertisers or payment processors demanding it. For marginalised people, Mastodon has powerful tools to stay safe.
But most people I talk to do acknowledge that and then go on to stay on #Twitter or sign up for #Bluesky.
But I understand the discoverability issues, it's Mastodon's greatest weakness IMO.
@AimeeMaroux The issue is that #federatedNetworks appear "hard" and are inscrutable to people used to clicking OK on a #EULA without reading it. People who don't understand that they are saying "please take my #privacy and my #rights." People who think that #appStores are great rather than voracious organizations with predatory commission structures.
Average users don't want to think why things are #free and easy. They will also be the ones to complain when a for profit corporation changes their rules in a way that affects them, the user who believes the internet is somehow "free".
The #fediverse is fantastic because no one organization can take it down, and you can change servers if you don't like your current server's new rules. But explaining that to #normies will get you a blank gaze of I comprehension.
The new #Minecraft#EULA is not confusing at all... :blobfoxconfused:
So if I run a private server (non-commercial, just for hobby w/ friends) it also applies for Commercial Use? Makes no sense to me.
Or pretty much formulated laxly...? :blobfoxthinking:
@thegibson Mildly devil's advocate reminder here... how they use data that we willfully surrender is usually specified in the #EULA which, admittedly, few users actually read. Peeps imagine the apps/sites they use are "free" and indispensable but the price is right there in the EULA. As it is and always will be under capitalism... caveat emptor...