Hi everyone.
I m a bit confused about this copyright thing. Im thinking to take some photos that i can sell on istock or similar sites. My question is : can i sell photos of brand items as long as i remove or crop their logo from the photo?
I c alot of pictures of phones and ipods and laptops, but they have no logos or they are cropped a certain way or blurred a way that u can that that the item is a ipod for example, but the logo is not showing. Can i sell photos like that? I dont wanna thing that all those photos in istok are displaying custom made fake products that resamble the original one. Anyone know about this?
2007-08-20 15:24:47 · 4 answers · asked by Lucifer 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I am goin to take my own photos of course. Maybe i wasnt clear. For example i take a picture of a piggybank with my hand that puts a coin in it. The hand is mine, the piggybank has a logo on it but i turn it the other side so that the side facing the camera is plain (no logo). Could i sell that photo on istok? even tho the piggybank was not made by me?
I mean, everything is made from someone else, glasses, corks, coins, even screws and nails...so tecnically one shouldnt be able to sell a photograph of anything.
2007-08-20 18:05:23 · update #1
This sounds very complicated. You really need to talk to a trademark/copyright lawyer.
2007-08-20 15:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If something has a log or brand name you can not sell it. It's not yours. If you want to sell something you have to create it .
Now, why would someone buy a photo of an iPod? You must be talking about ad photos. You can not sell anything like that.
Sounds to me like you're trying to open a can of worms. If you want to make money with photos then you have to take your own photos. Stock photography is very difficult to make money with, unless you have your own website. Selling through someone else does not a living make, even if you try it the easy way.
I would suggest that you try other avenues.
2007-08-20 22:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by morganjlandry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
since Ben called me up on my incorrect ideas on wedding copyright I got a document from my lawyers which I still havent read!
the bit about what you ask says:
a third party trademark in a photographic image does NOT (underlined not in caps - cant underline here) breach the rights of the thrid party, depending on:
then theres five factors, so like the others have said its a can a worms
get legal advise from a lawyer about it or read the guildlines that places like istock have, or if Ben answers.........
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2007-08-20 22:58:12 · answer #3 · answered by Antoni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are on a slippery slope, get legal advice.
2007-08-21 03:50:02 · answer #4 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋