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duboisst

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Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
« on: January 28, 2015, 07:43:37 am »
I had posted a few NYC panoramas on a photography site and was asked to remove any Identifying logos from the photos. Pardon my ignorance, but is it illegal to sell a photo of a building that has a logo on it?
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Slobodan Blagojevic

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Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2015, 09:55:51 am »
Depends on the purpose you are selling it for. How are you selling it?
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Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2015, 02:16:16 pm »
Without seeing the photo, my impression is that the site is being overly-cautious. I wouldn't hesitate to publish a panorama of a cityscape that happened to show logos on buildings as long as the image did not single out and emphasis a specific logo or imply or infer any special meaning to a specific logo. Context is important. I'm not a lawyer.
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Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2015, 03:19:47 pm »
My stock agency, ImageBrief, has a well-illustrated article about trademarks in commercial use:

Can I Sell My Image Commercially? Part 2: Trademarks
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Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2015, 05:47:43 pm »
Thank you Slobodan, I had originally posted to 500px. Until they complained about trade marks, then I deleted all of them.
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