Forum: Carrara


Subject: Props and Copyright/Trademark Issues?

regaltwo opened this issue on Sep 02, 2006 ยท 6 posts


MarkBremmer posted Sun, 03 September 2006 at 4:33 PM

Hello regaltwo, There is never really 100 Percent certainty there but I'll go out on a limb and say 99.9 percent ok. Usually, in cases like this, infringement issues would only come up if the product you made was used in an unflattering way to the company involved. Otherwise it's simply free marketing exposure. And even then, it has more to do with how a customer would use it instead of you. For all practical purposes, it would be like taking a photograph of one of the products in question and then displaying the photograph at an exhibit in terms of usage. However, if you started displaying artwork with something like "Pepsi, the drink of terrorisits" as a title with well-known likenesses holding the cans, you might get a friendly letter from a large legal firm. Mark