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I should be able to use Mickey to promote a car dealership. Anything that's not a competing media organization, really.

• hnlmorg 5y ago
  Why should you? Why should copyright by applied differently for car dealerships vs Disney? What you're describing is most closely described as trademarks but even there, you couldn't use Apple's name and logo to promote something in a non-competing sector. The best you could do is have a name or logo that was similar but which couldn't be confused with Apple, as well as being in a non-competing sector. Using Mickey Mouse wouldn't to promote new or used cars wouldn't even fly under trademark laws because you're using the trademark rather than a similar but unrelated one.