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US Supreme Court rules on fair use

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I was really interested to read this post by ‘Ask Hariette’ about a US designer who was threatened by Mars for using discarded chocolate bar wrappers in her art.

There are interesting questions for photographers which we could usefully discuss on the show.  For example, what is the situation when a trademarked sign (eg: the post office, a shop fronting or even the iconic London tube station lollipop) is in an image you have taken?

What do you think?  Have you ever been threatened by a large corporation for including a trademarked image?  As individuals who want to protect our own copyright, should we actually be saying that infringement of these trademarks is wrong?  I’d be interested to hear your views.

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Darren Hector

Darren founded PhotoLegal in early 2009 and is a photographer specialising mainly in wildlife and nature. He has a particular interest in species that are considered as pests by humans, and is particularly fond of wild canids (foxes, wolves etc), starlings and hyena. In 2008 he trained as a scuba diver and now photographs both under and over the water. He founded the PhotowalkLondon group and organises a monthly walk in different parts of the UK capital as a social opportunity for photographers to meet up and take pictures. Outside of photography, he is a keen fan of Formula 1 and has recently started playing the tuba again after a fourteen year gap.

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