Hi Everyone,
I'm new here (relatively, though I've been reading all of your wonderful advice for a while), and I have a burning question that I haven't found an answer to in reading threads about copyright and trademarks etc.
I originally joined this site as I am trying to find an agent/publisher for my first novel. However, I am now finding myself in the process of having my script for a pantomime read by a couple of agents (quite unexpectedly) instead.
In it, my co-writer and I have made mention about some products or have used actors to portray say a McDonald's employee selling big macs. I know that in a pantomime, we are given a certain amount of leeway on trademarks and copyright that would not be allowed in other forms of writing. My question is where is the line drawn?
I know that Disney is totally off limits, but for example talking about krispy kreme donoughts or using a sign on a cow that says eat mor chikin, are those things allowed?
Just wondering where the imaginary line is drawn. I don't want to infringe on anyone else's property. We originally wrote it for our school (I'm a music teacher as well as a novelist), and we didn't expect to get any notice for it.
*diving into the well of knowlege that is the water cooler*
I'm new here (relatively, though I've been reading all of your wonderful advice for a while), and I have a burning question that I haven't found an answer to in reading threads about copyright and trademarks etc.
I originally joined this site as I am trying to find an agent/publisher for my first novel. However, I am now finding myself in the process of having my script for a pantomime read by a couple of agents (quite unexpectedly) instead.
In it, my co-writer and I have made mention about some products or have used actors to portray say a McDonald's employee selling big macs. I know that in a pantomime, we are given a certain amount of leeway on trademarks and copyright that would not be allowed in other forms of writing. My question is where is the line drawn?
I know that Disney is totally off limits, but for example talking about krispy kreme donoughts or using a sign on a cow that says eat mor chikin, are those things allowed?
Just wondering where the imaginary line is drawn. I don't want to infringe on anyone else's property. We originally wrote it for our school (I'm a music teacher as well as a novelist), and we didn't expect to get any notice for it.
*diving into the well of knowlege that is the water cooler*