FontBoss
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7 months ago A late response but the Windows team asked me (as original author) of the FAQ to review.
With respect to "using commercial applications like Premiere and Photoshop to create multimedia works" - it's difficult to green light items or files created by third party tools, especially as redistribution of the font files and derivative font files is not allowed except for document font embedding. But the FAQ goes on to talk about bitmap images, advertising and video, so I am not sure what use case isn't addressed.
In addition the FAQ covers all of the Windows fonts exposed to customers. With respect to licensed fonts (rather than Microsoft owned fonts) included with Windows we typically obtain very broad rights and pass on somewhat narrower rights to our customers. We have the rights to allow all of the things described in the FAQ for all of the fonts supplied with Windows.
In the FAQ section it's stated that there are two sources of Windows fonts, say created specifically for Microsoft and licensed to Microsoft from font foundries for inclusion with Windows. But in the following question to "sell things print from Windows" it answers quite generally that apart from using non-commercial application "we do not restrict you from selling the things you print and make using the Windows-supplied fonts".
That's a very vague description since as far as I know there were lots of reported legal issues on Windows provided fonts like YaHei UI that involve using commercial applications like Premiere and Photoshop to create multimedia works. The page for font families like the one for YaHei does not yet provide link to detail licence agreements but to this FAQ page, thus a clear statement on FAQ matters. Should it be more specific on these aspects:
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