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Airline Mogul => Game News => Topic started by: StephenM on August 26, 2010, 05:16:52 pm

Title: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: StephenM on August 26, 2010, 05:16:52 pm
It has recently been brought to our attention that registered trademarks of real life airlines and alliances have been used in association with AirlineMogul, without the consent of the copyright owner. Here, we would like to reaffirm our stance that all airline/alliance names and images must be original/copyright free, or with written consent of the copyright holder. Any infringement of copyright, including but not limited registered trademarks, will be deleted promptly without prior warnings, once detected. We would also take this chance to strongly discourage the use of any registered trademarks / copyrighted materials in any third party websites associated with our game.

Should you come across any probable copyright infringement, please do not hesitate to email us at staff@airlinemogul.com with all the details involved, and we will have the materials removed.

Thanks for your cooperation.
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: blue25 on August 26, 2010, 05:43:59 pm
I have one question for clarification of this post:

Are we allowed to used defunct airlines that are at least from before or during the jet age of the 1950s/1960s? For example, Capital Airlines, AirCal, Eastern Airlines, etc. Some of these airlines that people have never heard of or never went "mainstream" with commercial services.
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: iranair777 on August 26, 2010, 10:25:16 pm
Are we allowed to create real life airline names but use our own made logos?
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: LostWorld on August 27, 2010, 04:33:32 am
At this point in time we advise you not to use any materials, included but not limited to logos or names, which could be trademarked or copyrighted. We are currently in the process of removing materials that could be considered to infringe any intellectual proprietary rights; we will be able to give further clarification in the coming days.

Thanks for your cooperation.
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: TTA on August 27, 2010, 04:37:29 am
I have one question for clarification of this post:

Are we allowed to used defunct airlines that are at least from before or during the jet age of the 1950s/1960s? For example, Capital Airlines, AirCal, Eastern Airlines, etc. Some of these airlines that people have never heard of or never went "mainstream" with commercial services.

Technically, no. The names to these airlines are normally bought out during liquidation and become property of the company that acquires them. Any current or former airlines apply in terms of what was stated above by LostWorld.
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: tadams on August 27, 2010, 05:07:17 am
Why the sudden crack down :o
Title: Re: Use of real world airline and alliance names
Post by: iranair777 on August 27, 2010, 12:38:33 pm
Why the sudden crack down :o
A certain alliance has complained ;)