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We've all heard about the UP wanting to protect its trademarks by charging a licensing fee for manufacturers to decorate models in its colors... Here's another questoin: In MR this month (and many months) there are pictures of models decorated in UP colors. Since they are trademarked, does MR have to pay a fee to display them? I was thinking yes, then I was thinking - newspapers display pictures of major league baseball players, without permission, I'm assuming. And computer game manufacturers have to pay a licensing fee and get permission to use MLB team logos, etc. So... how does the legality of this work? In both cases someone is making money selling something with UP colors? The reason I'm asking is that I'm pretty sure that there are Kalmbach books with UP colors, and IIRC, you can contact Kalmbach and get back issues or copies of older articles, featuring same.... Anybody know? Rob
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