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manwe150 2 days ago

The second question seems legally interesting, since trademarks generally aren’t copyrightable, but are an entirely different protected class, which prohibits using in any form to deceive the consumer. But a photograph of a hologram which is obviously not holographic doesn’t seem like an attempt to deceive the consumer, so it could be legal

Though overshadowed by your larger point that unauthorized reproduction of the rest of the creative work seems to be simple copyright infringement

duskwuff 2 days ago | parent [-]

Trademarks can be copyrightable, if the mark is sufficiently complex and original. A simple wordmark like the FedEx logo is under the threshold of originality, but a complex logo like the Starbucks mermaid is absolutely copyrightable.