Re: Re: Artwork
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Posted by Schwartz on September 21, 2002 at 04:16:49:
In Reply to: Re: Artwork posted by M Arthur Auslander on June 06, 2002 at 00:17:32:
Can the car or motorcycle manufacturer
object to whatever image is painted on the hood
or gas tank? Even if Disney gives permission
to put Donald Duck on the hood of a VW Bug,
couldn't Volkswagon sue the owner of the vehicle,
the painter, and Disney for putting the likeness
of a "duck" on a "bug"? Would anything be
different if it was a generic duck and not the
likeness of Donald Duck, even though VW still
doesn't like their car associated with a duck? I just saw three Jet Blue (the airline) logos
on a three car caravan of VW Bugs. Of course
Jet Blue gave permission. But is it likely that
VW did as well? One last permutation on this theme: would it
matter what the original product was? In other
words we were originally talking about cars and
motorcycles. What if we were talking about
bicycles, video arcade machines, boxed chocolates,
softdrink bottles/cans, etc.?
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