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I'd imagine trademarks play a role.

• gowld 7y ago
  Trademarks do not prevent people from using or commenting on products. Trademarks exist to prevent confusion about which products are really produced by the brand owner, not to prevent honest depictions. It might come in to play if you show a trademark while doing something that the trademarked object cannot do.
  • barrkel 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436271 If a character tastes sauce X, and sauce X's logo is displayed prominently, and the character shows disgust for sauce X, it could be misrepresentation of the product. Look at it the other way around, as anti-advertising: what would stop competitors buying negative coverage, negative placement if you will, against the trademark?
    • thaumasiotes 7y ago
      Nothing stops that; negative coverage of trademarks is fine. There's no distinction between positive advertising and negative advertising.