First of all sorry for the reply format, I only have access to the weekly digest currently so response are a bit out of context. Will change this soon.
Heiko Schulz wrote: >Problem is more the Eurocopter-logo which I should better remove. Last year there was a high court decision in Germany regarding the trademarked logos of Opel (spark) and Mercedes (the well known star). The court stated that a replica of an item can include trademarked logos if they integrally belong to the original item. This means that a Opel car replica is expected to have that spark logo as well as a Mercedes should have the star. A trademark holder can not enforce to exclude it nor can he claim licensing fees in the worst case. So for the Eurocopter logo the same applies if it is placed on an Eurocopter helicopter replica. It would be different to place it on a Bell aircraft. Therefore I believe we are on the safe side here. As to airline liveries things are more in a grey area but pretty similar. You expect the LH livery to be on an Airbus A380, CRJ200, etc. So as long as it is realistic and placed on the right plane type I would not expect issues here as this is common appearance and noone would expect that the A320 in FSX or FlightGear is directly affiliated with Lufthansa. Putting a LH livery on a plane is replicating LHs core business. Red Bull in turn is in a different core business and intensively merchandises its trademark for other businesses. So putting the logo on a can is prohibited as well as putting it on every other item as well as aircrafts, be it real or virtual unless stated otherwise. However I am not sure what the issue would be if we realistically modeled a RB beverage can- maybe RB would pay for advertising :) Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
