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10 Jan 2025 12:50:37 EST (-0500)
  Re: Use of commercial logos, etc.?  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 2 Feb 1999 10:49:55
Message: <36B71F0D.ADC8E656@Kopp.com>
Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> My bottom line suggestion is: avoid "fan art" - no Enterprises, Batmen, Tie
> fighters, Mickey Mice etc.  Don't make a specific trademark or trademarked
> character the focus of your image.  And if you do have a trademarked item in the
> image, for safety's sake don't do anything that could be interpreted as
> disparaging it.

I was planning to do a scene from a novel for "Imaginary Worlds".  If all
of the artwork is original, but the concept for the scene comes from
copyrighted material, what kind of laws apply?

This would NOT be a copy of an existing illustration (well, not one that I
have ever seen).

-Nathan


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