I think you are mixing the ambitions of the font vendors with the state of the law. I make no claims to be a copyright specialist but as I understand it even in the United States fonts per se fonts are not copyright viz:

The house of representatives report that accompanied the new copyright law when passed in 1976: "The Committee has considered, but chosen to defer, the possibility of protecting the design of typefaces. A 'typeface' can be defined as a set of letters, numbers, or other symbolic characters, whose forms are related by repeating design elements consistently applied in a notational system and are intended to be embodied in articles whose intrinsic utilitarian function is for use in composing text or other cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable 'pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted in1978 U.S. Cong. and Admin. News 5659, 5668.

As I understand it this remains the case. Adobe have tried to suggest some fonts are in fact computer programs but this still does not protect the glyphs or documents containing them.

I do not think there is any law anywhere in the world that restricts the unlimited distribution of pdf files containing any font that the generating program inserted.

As an afterword - we in polite society do not imply in a public forum that somebody is doing something improper without firm proof.

regards

Lynne

Marcello Perathoner wrote:

Gardner Buchanan wrote:

The actual Georgia fonts in BB's document are non-editable
ie: they are embedded in a document that is not intended to be
further edited (using that font) -- and in fact they have been
subset, making them fairly useless even for someone who went to
the trouble of teasing them out of the binary goo that is in
a PDF document.

First, you have to make sure the font vendor allows subset embedding of the font. Did you?

Second, you must buy a license of the font. If you don't own a license you surely have no right to use this font in any way.

And, even if Microsoft got a license to distribute this font from their web site, this doesn't give BB a license to do the same.