In the continuing saga of the French Internet Law (Hadopi), it seems the agency can't get it's own house in order. The font used in their own logo was created for France Telecom back in 2000 by an employee, designer Jean-François Porchez. It was to be used only inside France Telecom. The creator is threatening law suits because the font was used without permission, was it an illegal download?

From BoingBoing posting, France's anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo

Writer Julien L from French news site Numerama told TorrentFreak that the problem goes even deeper.

"The problem is, this font was an 'exclusive corporate typeface'. It couldn't be used for other purposes than France Telecom/Orange products," he told us...

Yesterday there was panic, as Hadopi tried to repair the damage by sourcing new matching fonts they could license legally.

Hadopi has issued an apology through gritted teeth, but while France Telecom-Orange has confirmed it won't be taking legal action over the infringement of its rights, the same cannot yet be said of Jean-François Porchez. He has contacted his lawyer to see what can be done.

So will the anti-piracy enforcement agency be tried for an act of piracy? That will be interesting...

The best bit from the BoingBoing post is this...

...If an organization charged with policing copyright with absolute, unaccountable power can't stop its employees from committing unwitting acts of infringement, how can a mere family ensure that no act of infringement takes place over its network connection?

In the meantime, I'm sure that if Hadopi commits two more acts of infringement, it will order its own offices taken offline for a period of a year.