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Originally Posted by BigRich
Many shopping centres have copyright to worry about, think of it like this: you see someone take a photo with body shop in the background and it ends up in an advert for Boots the chemist a rival. Instant Copyright violation. I had to move on everyone, video cameras, mobile phones and everything between. Its par for the course now.
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This has come up in a book I'm reading atm - I recommend it to every one of us content creators.
Movies have been held up in court because a scene happend to have a store front or some guys sculpture in the background... it's all gotten rather insane. We'd probably be breaking the law if we sold images that had recognisable brands in them - this can even include architechture!
The book is called "The Future Of Ideas" by Lawrence Lessig. It's been released freely under the creative commons licence - You can download it from here: -
::: the future of ideas :::
Lawerence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and the book is more about copyright laws in general and how it affects creativity bot specifically about any creative aspect but it IS relevant to us.