As far as I understand, artistic interpretations of trademarked products 
is not a problem, at least if you're not selling the thing.  If you're 
selling something, there might be issues.  I wouldn't worry.

In a sane world, if there were a problem the trademark holder could 
simply ask for the image (etc) to be removed and you could comply, but 
these days, companies seem to like the jack-booted lawyer mentality to 
the civilized way of doing things.  YMMV.

Chris B wrote:
> "Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcatcom> wrote in message 
> news:web.477e49577e3e9c5cce5ce3790@news.povray.org...
>> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Very nice. I think those models are extremely well done.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Chris B.
>>>
>>> p.s. Any of them would make a very nice addition to the object collection 
>>> we
>>> started last year at http://lib.povray.org, if you're interested.
>> Thanks very much!  I'd be happy to submit these, though I'm wondering if 
>> there
>> are any copyright issues as they are modeled on real products (the blocks 
>> also
>> use the actual patterns as well.)
>>
> 
> Ah yes. This has been discussed before, (about a desk if I remember 
> correctly) and the conclusion there seemed to be that if it bore 
> characteristics unique to a particular manufacturers version of the item (or 
> a trademark) that there could well be issues in copying the item.
> 
> I recall wondering whether this really applied to a 3D representation of the 
> object any more than to a 2D representation of the object, such as a photo, 
> a rendering or technical drawings, but I am not a lawyer and have to admit 
> to still being totally unclear about whether there's anything wrong with 
> distributing 3D models of real world objects.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Chris B. 
> 
>

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