These are the very issues that Socrates discussed. Now they are the basis for our way of life. I am not agreeing with the current state of the law in any of these countries, I just know that most of the rest of the world doesn't even have Western traditions. There is no culture that I know of where, either by common law or by act of government, designers own their designs exclusively and in perpetuity. All governments, since the days of the medieval period have changed that towards shorter periods with greater exceptions on exclusivity - and for the better.
End users are just harder to collect from.
If you put it in a movie, you have to pay royalties on it. Adobe may have millions of people extracting fonts with their Acrobat product. They have taught millions to do the very thing they tell the world that they want to eradicate. If there are universal rights to digital font data and no valid ways to extract it at all, then Adobe shouldn't be embedding other companies' fonts. Their intent is to take over all documents coming off of the web.