Comment Typefaces are not Copyrightable (Score 5, Insightful) 54
Typefaces are not copyrightable in the US. The font file is copyrightable, but unless the "clone font" is just literally the same files just renamed or something, it's perfectly legal. It is common for fonts to be "cloned" by re-creating the font outlines in font authoring software. I'm guessing this is the case here because they were able to tell it was specifically *that* clone font, so there must be some distinctive change they made when tracing the original font.