Sac Arrow
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Snorting his way across the USA
I'm asking for a friend. Okay, I'm asking for myself, but it is over a disagreement with a friend on the use of a product logo on commercial artwork.
Scenario, you have a Toyota Prius depicted on a fiction novel cover... no, scratch that, nobody would put a picture of a Prius on a fiction novel cover. Let's say it is a Kenworth truck, and the KW logo is visible on the top of the radiator grill. The image used for the truck isn't copyrighted. My friend thinks that having the Kenworth logo visible in the image is a copyright infringement. That doesn't sound correct to me. Who is right?
Scenario, you have a Toyota Prius depicted on a fiction novel cover... no, scratch that, nobody would put a picture of a Prius on a fiction novel cover. Let's say it is a Kenworth truck, and the KW logo is visible on the top of the radiator grill. The image used for the truck isn't copyrighted. My friend thinks that having the Kenworth logo visible in the image is a copyright infringement. That doesn't sound correct to me. Who is right?