Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:15 AM 2/24/2005, you wrote: >Sorry Tina, yes it's on private property, but it's not trademarked - you >can't trademark an actual tree - only a particular representation of that >tree as it is used in that trademark. > >tim Tim - I was going by this: "In May 1990, the company officially registered the Lone Cypress as its trademark. Soon afterwards, the signs restricting commercial artistic renderings of the tree were posted. Today, the company has no problem with folks snapping pictures of the Lone Cypress, and pasting those photos in their scrapbooks. "We welcome it," Hotelling states. Just don't try selling those photographs, or you risk the billion-dollar wrath of the Pebble Beach Co. And it's not just photographs: The restrictions extend to paintings, sketches, and all other artistic renderings of the tree, as well. "An artist can paint the tree and hang it on their wall, but if they sell it, it becomes a problem," Hotelling says. "The rules apply to both photographers and artists." But the same site has a long discussion about whether you can trademark a tree: http://www.midrealism.paxtonfineart.com/Pages/Articlecoastweekly.html Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com