Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts

Can I Reproduce Magazine Cover When My Product Is Featured?

Dear Rich: My product has been recently featured in a national magazine along with my company name. I've asked the magazine's permission to use their magazine name and the pictures that display my product, but they haven't responded. Could I use a picture of their magazine cover and state that my product was featured in their magazine on my ecommerce site without their permission? Wow, congratulations on getting some serious inka-dinka-doo and good luck with your product sales. Reproducing the magazine cover without permission is most likely an infringement of the copyright owned by the magazine, the cover artist/photographer, or both. But there are ways you can use it that can seriously lower your risks.
Copyright issues. The safest use (and one that would likely be excused) would be to use a thumbnail of the magazine cover -- something in the ballpark of the illustration size above. Recent cases have considered thumbnails as permissible fair uses, including a case in which magazine covers were used in a book. You can probably even claim fair use successfully using larger sizes, though we must always remind readers that fair use is a defense that you have to prove in court (a scary proposition). You can also consider another factor that we mention to Dear Rich readers. Will the magazine find out about your use and will they care? Obviously -- based on the zillions of unauthorized reproductions of product reviews -- many people in your position take this "stop me if you don't like it approach."
Trademark issues. We know that the writer of the magazine article endorsed your product (Yay!) but that doesn't necessarily mean that the magazine endorses your product and it may have a policy that asks readers not to associate the magazine's name with product or service advertising. Other magazines may have a policy prohibiting use of the logo or other trademarks in advertising. Check out the magazine's trademark rules (usually posted at its website or within the magazine) and look for any blanket prohibitions. As a general rule you should be okay with straight informational statements like "Our cool binoculars were mentioned in Bird Magazine and the writer called them "extraordinary." (You can probably include a few lines from the review without running into copyright problems.)

Please Magazine


quote [Ramona Chmura and Fanny Francois for the spring 2011 issue of Please Magazine, shot by Richard Bernardin styled by Annabelle Jouot].
(via WE ARE!)

The Room Magazine


The Room Magazine's new issue (#12) is officially out, and you can find some intersting images here, and here.
[Thumbnail photo by Istvan Labady]

Gravure Magazine


Gravure Magazine is the new American fashion journal, published semiannually in limited edition and online in unlimited edition. Gravure was launched in 2007 Alex Freund and Lisa Mosko, founders of the boutique creative bureau Gravure Projects.

Fail Blog


LINK Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures.

Lindsay Lohan by Terry Richardson


quote [Terry Richardson shoots the continuously problematic and possibly contagious Hollywood pathogen starlet known as Lindsay Lohan for the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Purple Magazine].
[Previously on... Lindsay Lohan at Unscathed Corpse]

F/lthy Georgeous Th/ngs Magazine


quote [F/lthy Gorgeous Th/ngs is an online magazine of sex, art, and photography. Each monthly issue showcases work from both up-and-coming and established writers, photographers and artists with content oriented around a featured theme].[Thumbnail: Joseph Story].
(via fluffy Lychees)
[More about magazines at Unscathed Corpse]

Marion Cotillard: Another Magazine 2010


quote [Inspired by her powerful and chameleon-like portrayals, we decided to cast Marion Cotillard in our very own Fashion Performance. The current Lady Dior proved to the world she was master of both film and fashion when she elegantly carried off that Jean Paul Gaultier mermaid dress on the night she won Best Actress for her role as Édith Piaf. We looked to the work of the 1960s Fluxus movement to inform this one-off performance, full of intriguing yet unexplained meanings. In AnOther Magazine 18 the narrative continues in an interview, where Cotillard reveals her heroes, her passions, and the contents of her handbag].
[Photography: Craig McDean]