[Jewelry making - Article 00832] - Re: [Orchid] [Again] Copyrights

[Stephen Walker]

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    The Harley piece is a Trademark, rather than an Copyright issue.
    Similar, but actually trademarks are more powerful than copyrights.
    The right way to handle this, and you don't need a lawyer, is to
    contact Harley Davidson and ask them if it is OK. I am quite sure they
    have a department that deals with licencing and trademarks that makes
    this kind of call every day. 

>>    Am putting all of my selected 370 jewellery pictures into a book
>>    form for distribution...."Manual of Diamond Setting". This will 

>         IF they are all pictures you took of jewelry you created
>     independently then there are no possible copyright problems. 

    Not quite true! If the work you create and photograph infringes on a
    registered trademark you can have big trouble very quickly. Try
    making jewelry that uses NFL logos without getting the proper
    licencing. People do it all the time, just like they freely use
    Harley logos, but the trademark owner regularly lets people get away
    with it, they can loose the trademark to public domain. Harley may
    already be in that situation, but don't count on it. Get busted and
    they could seize all your books, if a court sees the image as a
    trademark infringement. It is easy enough to just ask. I'll bet they
    say OK. 

Stephen Walker

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