Considering that any judge with the authority to issue a Protective Order would have to acknowledge that recordings of threats against you that prove the need for the Order would be a 'legitimate' reason to record somebody without their informed consent, using the recording as evidence will be just fine. If you should happen to end up in front of a judge that disagrees, you can always appeal their decision.
The hilarious part of this story is that Hasbro could have avoided all of the negative publicity associated with this copyright infringement claim, by paying a one-time fee of $19.95 USD. Having read through all of the ToS and licensing agreements associated with buying access to a font from Font Bros, just buying the license once would have covered just about all of the different purposes to which Hasbro might have applied their licensed font.
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Re: Maryland oral recording - in my own home
Considering that any judge with the authority to issue a Protective Order would have to acknowledge that recordings of threats against you that prove the need for the Order would be a 'legitimate' reason to record somebody without their informed consent, using the recording as evidence will be just fine. If you should happen to end up in front of a judge that disagrees, you can always appeal their decision.
The hilarious part of this story is that Hasbro could have avoided all of the negative publicity associated with this copyright infringement claim, by paying a one-time fee of $19.95 USD. Having read through all of the ToS and licensing agreements associated with buying access to a font from Font Bros, just buying the license once would have covered just about all of the different purposes to which Hasbro might have applied their licensed font.