Surely, the likeness of an aircraft contracted, bought and owned by the government in WW2 is public domain? Especially since I don't think they are in production any more;-) This guy is aware the plane is not full scale, right?;-)
I would call up someone in legal at Revell or Monogram, the plastic model guys, and ask if they have to pony up any fees... if they do, I imagine it's only for copying the original engineering drawings, logos, or such. I am reminded of a story, I think in the AMA magazine, years ago, guy made a very accurate quarter-scale or giant scale Pitts done up in the Holiday Inn acro team colors. (whatever happened to that team?) He sent a picture of his pride and joy to Holiday, and got back a bigfoot letter from the hotel's lawyers, the gist of which was he had no permission to show the plane in public, blah, blah. Indeed, in my memory, I think there was something about ordering the model destroyed, or at least it's paint job. That was about control of a registered, copyrighted logo, not the design of the craft carrying the logo. It would make sense if you stole Lockheed's logo to put on a t-shirt to sell... heck, Lockheed has it's own store on the web that DOES sell logo t-shirts, skunkworks stuff, etc. This aspect makes perfect sense, and Don as much as said he had no problem paying for that or deleting it from the artwork. But the shape of the plane for a model?!?!?!? Better tell this guy to check six, select zone five, and extennndddd;-) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
