(6) Licensing Helvetica Bold from Linotype comes with a dramatically different EULA than the same font licensed from Adobe. (5) Make no assumptions such as “if you buy the font, your officialy coverd.' (sic) That is simply not true! (4) There are a number of issues associated with licensing including but not limited to (a) number of users/devices that may have the font installed, (b) whether the font or subsets of the font may or may not be embedded in output from the design creation process - i.e., PostScript, EPS, PDF, ePUB, etc., (c) whether such output with embedded fonts may be subsequently distributed without payment of further royalties, (d) whether the font itself may be modified (glyph design, metrics, kerning, hinting, font format, etc.) by the licensee even if only for their own use, (e) conversion to outlines for purposes of bypassing embedding restrictions, (f) use of the font in web pages either statically or dynamically, and (g) use of a font in a corporate identity such as a logo, etc. (3) EULAs vary tremendously not only from vendor to vendor, but often between one font and another offered by the same vendor. The EULA fully overrides any internal access privilege protections within TrueType or OpenType fonts. Legally, you are bound to the EULA (End User License Agreement) in effect at the time you licensed the font. (2) There is no simple response as to what you can do with the font and any content using or referencing the font. (1) If is highly unlikely that you “purchased” a font itself, but rather a license for use of the font. A few comments based on the original question and responses:

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