Friday, 8 July 2011

Harry Potter and The Forbidden Typeface

Filed under: Movies, Celebrity Justice, Deadline, Fashion

Evil forces are at work at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida ... all because the gift shop is selling merchandise which contains a STOLEN FONT ... this according to a new lawsuit.

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The company behind the lawsuit is P22 Type Foundry -- which claims they own the copyright to the Cezanne Regular font (seen above) ... which, apparently, is a very wizardy-looking typeface.

According to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in NY, P22 claims the font was splashed all over Potter t-shirts, hats, pins bags and more -- but no one associated with the merchandise ever got permission to use the font for commercial purposes.

Now, P22 is going after NBCUniversal -- the company that owns the theme park --as well as the merchandise manufacturers ... demanding at least $1.5 MILLION in damages. 

We were unable to get a comment from NBCUniversal.



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Source: http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/07/harry-potter-lawsuit-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-nbcuniversal-theme-park-merchandise-font-typeface-gift-shop/

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