Timeline for What are the copyright restrictions regarding USA's icons/monuments?
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 3:55 | comment | added | phoog | @ElProgramador10 on further inspection it appears that coast guard emblems are protected by neither trademark nor copyright law, but rather by the law cited on the page you linked to. Did you read that law? Do you have questions about it? (In fact, the protection it provides is substantially similar to trademark protection.) | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 3:49 | comment | added | phoog | @ElProgramador10 trademark protection is different from copyright protection. It protects different things for different reasons against different kinds of infringement. It might be a good idea to read the Wikipedia article on trademark, or any trademark questions and answers on this site. In particular, trademark protection does not mean your need permission to use the trade mark, even if the coast guard thinks you do. It means you can't use the trade mark to sell a similar product or service. How that applies to the coast guard, I can only guess. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 1:08 | comment | added | ElProgramador10 | @BlueDogRanch, The illustrations would be more along the lines of scenes representing the iconic American elements (e.g. for the Navy, an illustration of an aircraft carrier that may or may not display the emblems depending on what I decide to draw, or on whether I'm even allowed to draw said logo/emblem). I will not be using photographs; only the the drawing, and some text describing it's importance. This would be a self-published book, which is why I'm trying to cover all of the legal aspects. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 0:55 | comment | added | ElProgramador10 | @phoog, one example is the Coast Guard emblem; an application needs to be submitted in order to get permission to use it: Coast Guard Trademarks | |
| Mar 14, 2016 at 4:54 | comment | added | phoog | Can you provide an example of a military logo for which copyright is claimed? In general, works of the US government are in the public domain. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Liberty Bell, and the White House are all too old to be in copyright protection still, and some of them are also government works. | |
| Mar 14, 2016 at 3:58 | comment | added | BlueDogRanch | You're asking about two different things: illustrations of places and monuments that you will do, and copies of the seals/logos of departments of the govt. You are not using photographs? And: is this a self-published book? Or through a commercial publisher? | |
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