california trademark fair-use online
how to fair use another company&#39;s logo in personal blogs for review or tutorial purpose?
<p>Here is my initial question about adding creator information on some &quot;artwork&quot; that also contains other companies' logos.
<a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/84719/how-to-properly-add-creator-information-when-the-art-work-is-done-with-other-com">How to properly add creator information when the art work is done with other companies&#39; logo?</a></p>
<p>Short summary:</p>
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<p>How can we properly add creator information when the artwork is done
with other companies' logos? We just treat all those pictures which
have other companies' logos and text as creative &quot;artwork&quot; (maybe a
better word)?</p>
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<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/agQen.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/agQen.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>Qne answer talks about <strong>fair use</strong>, How can we add the copyright information about this picture if we use it on my blogs/tutorials?</p>
<p>I would like to add following information into this picture,</p>
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<p>Creater: mysite.com<br />
logo copyright: google.com</p>
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<p>using the <strong>fair use</strong> method.</p>

<h2>Fair use does not apply to Trademark</h2>
<p>Fair Use is only available for copyright material. Trademarks are solely for determining the source of goods or services and not subject to Fair Use.</p>
<h2>Trademark allows Nominative Use</h2>
<p>Nominative use is naming the mark. It does <strong>not</strong> allow to use the mark itself.</p>
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<li>A flashlight for a Gameboy may say &quot;For GameBoy(TM)&quot;, akin to the NAKI Action Light:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2v8ct.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2v8ct.jpg" alt="Box of a NAKI Action Light" /></a></li>
<li>A replacement oil filter may say &quot;Fitting for Nissan Almera Tino (v10) 2000-2006 115 PS Diesel&quot;, or rather, they usually specify the exact OEM numbers and car models, like in the following excerpt:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XjFKa.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XjFKa.png" alt="Nissan OEM numbers for some Oilfilter" /></a></li>
<li>NEITHER may use the Nintendo, Gameboy, Nissan or Almera picture marks for the advertising. Do note, that NAKI didn't cover up the marks on their model Game Boy, which might or might not be a problem.</li>
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