2018-08-17 at 10:49 AM UTC
Okay so in this hypothetical;
A car manufacturer or an upfitter , say JEEP , can't make a Call of Duty(lol) or Jurassic Park branded version of their car to sell without coming to a licensing agreement with the owner of those brands.
But if you have a plain Jeep and you want it to have the Call of Duty or Jurassic Park logo or tony the tiger or whatever, you could find a car-painter and commission him to paint a trademarked graphic that YOU chose and asked him to put on the car , everything is by the book, right?
Wondering if I would be O.K. selling decorated trinkets and nick-nacks, available decorated-to-order and a customer requests his to feature TABASCO, Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, IBM, Ford, AMC etc Trademarks - I'm assuming I couldn't use photos of the resulting version of the product specifically decorated that way in any of my photographs. What if my friend or family were to ask me to make him a ronald mcdonald trinket, and he were to post it online for others to see and in turn more people requested the same trinket designed as his was?
I don't really know the legalese to look this up easily. Input?
2018-08-17 at 12:23 PM UTC
Cootehill
African Astronaut
[my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]
I know artists and cake makers get in trouble from time to time for drawing Mickey the Mouse.
2018-09-14 at 5:35 PM UTC
It's still copyright/trademark infringement. Whether they'd come after you is another question...but they could and they could sue you out the wazzoo.
If you are making money off it they are more likely to sue than if you were just doing it as 'fan art' sort of thing...in which case they'd probably just send you a cease and desist letter.
2018-09-14 at 5:48 PM UTC
Just draw a little piece of poo in the corner of your designs and then say they're unique because of it.
