printzofpeace

Can you use a musical artists name on a t-shirt or anybody/s name for that matter?

 

sunnydayz

You cant use anything that is copyrighted or trademarked. Your best bet is to do a search at each organization and check if it is protected. Hope this helps.

If you question whether something is legal it is best to contact an intellectual property attorney and check.

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BobbieLee

 

printzofpeace

does anybody else have input or know from experience. I want to use a musicians name on a t-shirt no picture or anything like that just a name. Is that illegal?

 

sunnydayz

Most published musicians names are protected, I would think no it is not ok.

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Rodney

Quote: Originally Posted by printzofpeace does anybody else have input or know from experience. I want to use a musicians name on a t-shirt no picture or anything like that just a name. Is that illegal?

We cannot answer legal questions for you here since we aren't lawyers.

Even if 1000 of us said that it's fine or that we talked to a lawyer that we know and they said it was OK, it still wouldn't be a good idea for you to use that advice and move forward. Why? Because you could still get sued and it could still cost you a lot of money if someone decided to push it.

So sunnydayz advice of "talk to a lawyer" is probably the safest, since we really can't advise on legal matters.

The laws are pretty complicated, so even if you found someone to say "it's legal", you could still get sued.

I'll close this thread out, since there's not much we can help you with on this particular topic. For research purposes, you may want to Google "right to publicity".

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