IPC Media, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., the publishing division of AOL Time Warner, and one of Europe’s largest magazine publishers. Over 64% of adults in the UK read an IPC magazine.

Controlling the distribution and use of fonts throughout the organisation was a full time concern for IT management. Tracking purchasing was difficult and since there appeared no foolproof way of checking the total number of licences required, an enterprise-wide licence was purchased as a catch-all.

But was this necessary? More to the point, how could the company clearly prove that it was correctly licensed and therefore legal without a management system in place?

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