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There must be a limit - otherwise video games like Grand Theft Auto could put photos of say, McDonalds, in their game and not break any laws. I'm not sure wher
by hirsin 10y ago
There must be a limit - otherwise video games like Grand Theft Auto could put photos of say, McDonalds, in their game and not break any laws. I'm not sure where I sit on whether that's right, but currently they shy away from it for a reason.
An interesting corollary may be use of products in TV - at what point does everyone using a MacBook or Windows (and then having problems with beachballs/blue screens) count as copyright infringement?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoThere's a gap between "we can legally do this" and "we can legally do this but we don't want to spend more money on lawyers."
- hirsin 10y agoI suspect that's the biggest reason - lawyers are easy to throw at problems, getting answers from them is hard, especially with settlements.
- Asooka 10y agoProbably, but there's a difference between plastering a trademark you don't own over your product and telling people "there is a McDonalds restaurant 500m away from you here that looks like this and if you go within ~10m of it, you can get some pokeballs". Seriously, the range from which you can interact with the bloody things is huge.