I was about to work on a cool pic I took when I realized the glasses all said Pepsi on them.  If I posted it on Renderosity, would that technically be violating the law.  Would I need Pepsi's permission to post it?  I'm not selling anything, but I don't know all the rules and laws of that junk.  Any body know?

Oh lord.  RR has the most complicated way of determining this issue!  I got caught in it a while back, so I can tell you what I found out at the time.  (Here's a link if you want all the information ... I warn you, it got a bit dull, but at least you can see in writing what they told me.)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2763377

I hope that helps!

Tara

Thank you!  The glasses with Pepsi are the main focus, but it wasn't intended to be the focus because of the brand name.  Could I put it up and if it violates it, Renderosity could just take it down maybe?

Of course!  They'll either notice it or they won't.  The image of mine they pulled was only pulled because somebody brought it to their attention.  Unofficially, one of the mods had already seen my image and ignored it.  (This all happened about a month AFTER I posted the image, btw!)

There are no Federal Marshalls patrolling Renderosity looking for trademark violations!  This is strictly a Renderosity issue, not a legal one.

It's totally up to you what you post and what you don't.  Don't let me make that decision for you - I can only tell you what happened to me.

Good luck!

Sorry for posting a little late on this, but I usually change the labels on props that include a real or fictitious trademark by modifying the textures.  I would suggest doing that instead of dealing with any legal issues.

Besides, sometimes it's run to be creative and give the product a really stupid name.  I try to do this in my writing as well even if it's probably never going to be published.  I've been working on the same novel for about 30 years and I don't know if it'll ever get finished.  My old writing group has far surpassed me in getting their stuff published.  I'd give up on it, but it's just too interesting and different.

Sleeping tiger, if you ever have a question about whether you would be violating the tos or not when posting an image.

Feel free to send that image to any member of the staff for a once over first. I myself would be more than happy to take a look and let you know whether posting something violates the tos or not.

Also if the members ever have any questions regarding copyright, please either post them in the copyright forum, or send them to a member of staff, or send them to copyrights@renderosity.com directly.

As far as your glasses, I  can tell you though, that sometimes posting an image with a product name is ok. It really depends upon the whole image.

Hope that helps you out a bit.

If not get ahold of me and let me know and I'll get a more definitive answer for your questions.

Daidalos