Brands and Flickr

beans

was trying to develop a technique for B&W conversions last night, and started snapping my shoes for want of anything better to hand. Used the channel-mixer to better effect than any of my previous attempts, and just looking at the pics today something came to me.

If my Flickr was full of shots of brand-names, registered images etc etc, would I be 'reproducing copyright materials' and be breaking some kind of copyright law? Any repercussion from publishing a book of logos or brand-names?

TheBaz, it was your B&W shots that prompted me to ditch the grey-grey-grey results I had been achieving up to now. Altghough this might be to far a swing in the other direction

I

rymus

If you sell or otherwise make a profit from a photo or other materials containing brand names or other copyrighted material then yes, you could land yourself in hot water.

Many if not all stock photography agencies specifically disallow any submissions with copyrighted brands or logos in them.

beans

Reminds me of a case where a t-shirt printer was being threatened action by the guy who claimed to hold the copyright for the original O RLY? owl...

I wondered if just showing them in a public place would constitute a breach, I guess not.

rymus

If you don't stand to make a profit from displaying them, you may get away with it.