Is it possible to use company logos in commercial material? Do you have to get permission/pay a license fee to the companies for their use?
Update:Then how does Sporcle use them for instance?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/corplogos
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yes definitely you need the permission otherwise it will be termed as the copyright violation and you may have to face the legal consequences for the same
If you want to use them in an ad for the company the logo belongs to and you have been commissioned to do so, no problem but if you are simply seeking to cash in on someone else's creativity, go ahead but get yourself a big bank balance to pay the copyright infringement fines first. If you are producing commercial material you should always get copyright clearance first. That's why it's called copyright.
Yes you pay for the use of someone else's property. You need a written contract. A violation of copy right is 250k per instance