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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: duboisst on January 28, 2015, 07:43:37 am

Title: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
Post by: duboisst 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?

Title: Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on January 28, 2015, 09:55:51 am

Depends on the purpose you are selling it for. How are you selling it?

Title: Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
Post by: pcgpcg 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.

Title: Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic 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 (http://blog.imagebrief.com/post/72665412752/can-i-sell-my-image-commercially-part-2#.VMlDC8Y31l8)

Title: Re: Logos on buildings can't appear in city scapes?
Post by: duboisst 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.