Has anyone been fined for Google images and unlicensed fonts?

Question

Design

Recently, more and more gnaws at the thought that suddenly, sooner or later, a fine will come.
Something everyone recommends using licensed images, fonts.
But it often happens that this is only in words. So I would like to know if anyone has a bad experience?
PS: Please respond to those who have several commercial projects with attendance of at least > 1000 people / month.

Answer 1

To do this, the owner must be a resident of the Russian Federation or the company must have a representative office in the Russian Federation (for example, like Microsoft). If the conversation is about the Russian Federation.

Answer 2

Online? No
, and fines do not come. Maximum - please remove the content.

Answer 3

A couple of years ago, the Russian ParaType sent a demand (from lawyers, with screenshots) to buy a license for their font used in the design of the site - 10,000 rubles, plus a fine of 12,000 rubles for violation of rights. Bargained simply for a license retroactively. They paid 10,000 rubles.

Answer 4

I have no experience, but I refused all plugins without an MIT license - just in case (from fancybox, for example). I take fonts - free fonts for commercial use, immediately with a license. As for the graphics - either I draw myself, or I significantly shovel the original.

Answer 5

Yes, what are the penalties? You're just going to be on the low end when you use stealth content for commercial purposes.

Answer 6

When working with our western and large customers, I use either free fonts / pictures, or, if necessary, I put before a choice - to buy, to make custom (for example, in the case of icons) or to use not quite suitable, but commercial free.
In the case of our small customers, I explain what's what and then use what the customer says to use (I think you understand what I mean).

Answer 7

you don’t get here at all, but who gets there - it’s rather unpleasant,
but there are already quite a lot of free ones, start here:
What free stocks do you use to search for icons, photos and interface elements?
you don't have to pay and don't worry

Answer 8

You go to the site https://www.fontsquirrel.com/ and look for the desired font. Mastering English. Choose the type of license you need. Download webpack. The license usually lies at the root of this archive. You save her. When making claims, you waved a printed license in front of your nose. If the applicants do not calm down, you go to court with them and get a profit for: moral damage, for lost profits.

Answer 9

So that there are no fears - download images from free photo stocks and fonts as well)

Answer 10

By fonts -
From $ 8 per month for a font https://www.fonts.com/web-fonts Or you can do it there for free. Legally, without SMS. There are thousands of fonts. On myfonts, they cost $1000-2000 (per year, I think).
There are also fonts from Adobe Typekit, read the licenses.
There is also https://rentafont.ru/
It is more profitable to host at home (having corrected the font about the desired rendering and format).
Judging by the Runet, no one is being persecuted, everyone is stealing)). But for people like Yandex and Banks, it’s cheaper and safer to hire a personal type designer and make your own font).

Answer 11

With fonts, everything is not very budgetary, but if you already see the fundamental qualitative differences between a paid font and its closest free counterpart, you can most likely come up with something to pay for licenses for a decent product.
With photos and illustrations, it’s a little easier if you don’t have enough free materials (they have been plentiful for a long time, at least o unsplash.com, icons8.com and thenounproject.com you, I hope you heard), now you can find decent paid photo stocks with chip plans from $10 per month for 10 photos or illustrations. The one that I have been using for the last couple of years was recently bought by Adobe and there are already new prices for new customers, but depositphotos.com seems to have recently introduced a similar tariff.

Answer 12

Initially, the copyright holder is obliged to try to settle all this out of court by sending you a letter. If you are reluctant to remove the content, you can ask him to send proof in writing, by registered mail, and also indicate that the review period is 30 days. Usually at this stage, many citizens leave the race. In the future, you need to find fault with the form of the letter and look for a reason to force the copyright holder to send a second letter. In any case, if the copyright holder is serious, the content will have to be removed, sooner or later.

Answer 13

Author's photos in the printed edition)

Answer 14

Here is an example where the author's drawing has been removed . See the link for more interesting points.
Whether the question is ahead of its time, whether it was asked in the wrong country, whether our country wants us to be as before, simply, humanly)