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Chip Kidd 8, 12 and 13 May 1997	Chip Kidd is one of the leading lights in book design and is based at Knopf Books in New York. Chip has won many awards and is on the committee of the Type Directors Club of New York. Talks are being held in London, Manchester and Edinburgh respectively. The talks are hosted by The Typographic Circle, and sponsored by GF Smith. Tickets are available from Faces £5 members of the Typographic Circle, £7 non-members and £3 students. Order your tickets by leaving your details on the Faces Website or fax your order to Faces on 01276 38111.
Creative Show 20, 21, 22 May 1997, The Business Design Centre	Visit Faces on Stand M58 to see all our latest font releases - whatever's new at the cutting edge of font design. Featuring the FontHaus Collection; the FontFont library; [T-26], Emigre, ITC and much, much more. There will be special show prices for a number of the type libraries we carry. We shall be demonstrating brand new software for matching fonts - Font Expert - the quickest way of identifying mystery fonts. In addition to type, Faces will be featuring the PhotoDisc Collection, illustrations from Seymour Chwast and images from ArtParts.
Bladdered by Fax 22 May 1997	Hosted by Faces, 6.30pm till late, at the Roadhouse, Covent Garden, London WC1.
Total Publishing Show 1-2 July 1997, Olympia	Visit Faces on Stand 246. This show brings together everything that's relevant to the magazine publishing industry under one roof. Faces will be featuring the newest and hottest fonts from the FontHaus Collection; FontFonts; the Creative Alliance and more. In addition to type, Faces will be featuring the PhotoDisc Collection.

Font Licensing

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"Design consultancies which are using software illegally are among the 76,000 companies being targeted for raids by trading standards officers. A crackdown from May on 'software crime' is expected to net many consultancies which break the law. Most do so through ignorance rather than malice, says Roger Woods of the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) FAST, which was set up by the Government to deal with software copyright, backs government estimates that 90 per cent of companies illegally copy software. Woods claims that every consultancy in London which is using more than a dozen Macs or PCs will be visited by trading standards officers over the next three years. The campaign will be widened beyond London, and smaller companies will also be targeted. Consultancies found in breach of the law face confiscation of software and hardware. Legal action could also be extended to clients, which could find designs produced using illegal software are also seized. Woods met representatives from around 50 consultancies at a discussion organised by the Design Business Association last week, chaired by Barry Salter, chairman of Design in Action. Salter says "There is the ability to prosecute, but I understand that FAST wants to work with designers. There is only a small percentage of people who set out to break the law - but it is a very easy law to break. Salter says software companies which use complex licence agreements are not helping themselves or design consultancies: "Designers are not lawyers." Salter says there is a role for the DBA to represent the software users, a view backed by Woods. FAST hopes it can facilitate agreement between the design industry and software producers. Woods says: "We want to help people avoid trouble and manage their software within the law. We want to change attitudes, not prosecute. An affordable software audit scheme is one suggestion being discussed by the DBA and FAST." This article was taken from Design Week and reproduced by their kind permission.