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Paul Marcus Photos
Posts: 22
Lawrenceville, Georgia, US
Anybody know where I can get a FREE template to make a Playboy Magazine cover for one of my customers?
Thanks.
Rich
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Rob Mac Studio
Posts: 1105
London, England, United Kingdom
Just google playboy logo and you will get the header font, add your own text.
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RSM-images
Posts: 4226
Jacksonville, Florida, US
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Don't forget the license fee from PEI....
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Rick Dupuis Photography
Posts: 6825
Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cool Text has a font thats pretty close but the O has a rabbit in the middle. I've done covers for a couple of models but I ask them not to post them because I am a bit concerned with the licensing thing.
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Sal W Hanna
Posts: 6686
Huntington Beach, California, US
Paul Marcus Photos wrote:
Anybody know where I can get a FREE template to make a Playboy Magazine cover for one of my customers?
Thanks.
Rich No such thing as a Free trademarked template for Playboy.
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GER Photography
Posts: 8463
Imperial, California, US
Why would you even consider infringing on an iconic trademark? You could get sued!!
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JM Dean
Posts: 8931
Cary, North Carolina, US
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NVision Photography
Posts: 27
Marietta, New York, US
Here's a thought To avoid any copyright issues... make your own  Call it "Play Dude" and change the rabbit silhouette to a beaver maybe or perhaps a buck Ok, cheap jokes aside, you really could invent something fun and creative for your client. Be an original
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OpenMinds
Posts: 886
Paradise Valley, Arizona, US
Rob Mac Studio wrote:
Just google playboy logo and you will get the header font, add your own text. Thats illegal, Copyright and trademark infringement = fine and jail.
Please don't promote that kind of activity.
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Rob Mac Studio
Posts: 1105
London, England, United Kingdom
OpenMinds wrote:
Thats illegal, Copyright and trademark infringement = fine and jail.
Please don't promote that kind of activity. I'm sure your vigilance will hold you in great stead with Playboy Enterprises.
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Paul Marcus Photos
Posts: 22
Lawrenceville, Georgia, US
Thanks to everyone for the comments. I did consider the "infringement" possibilities and I've seen "knock off" looking versions of the cover. I will figure something out, but again.....thanks for the warnings!
Rich
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Chuckarelei
Posts: 11271
Seattle, Washington, US
Make your own, it's so easy with computer these days. That way you don't have to worry about copyright and trademark infringement.
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Rob Mac Studio
Posts: 1105
London, England, United Kingdom
I did but was told I would go to jail.
What exactly constitutes copyright infringement if you mock a copy up. The use of the word?
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Chuckarelei
Posts: 11271
Seattle, Washington, US
Rob Mac Studio wrote:
I did but was told I would go to jail.
What exactly constitutes copyright infringement if you mock a copy up. The use of the word? I don't think you go to jail for civil matters like copyright/trademark infringement, not even in U.K., may be in China, Russia, or Middle East (if they decide you did violate the laws)? You go to jail only for criminal offense.
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Innovative Imagery
Posts: 2841
Los Angeles, California, US
I think the problem is you making use of there trademark in a commercially offered product. In other words you are making money off their design. You could make one for display only as a satire, and that would fall under fair use, but as soon as you "sold' it to someone else, you are infringing.
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Ken Marcus Studios
Posts: 9421
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Innovative Imagery wrote:
I think the problem is you making use of there trademark in a commercially offered product. In other words you are making money off their design. You could make one for display only as a satire, and that would fall under fair use, but as soon as you "sold' it to someone else, you are infringing. I'm not even sure that you can get away with one as a display.
When I was working with Playboy and had shoots published in almost every issue, I thought it would be a nice thing to make up some hats with the bunny logo and the caption "Playboy Photo Dept." on it.
I had about 20 of them made as Christmas gifts and gave them to all the folks in the photo department and to all the editors.
A week later I got a threatening letter from the Playboy Legal Department informing me that if I was to continue violating their Trademark, they would have no choice but to sue me.
That was the last time I ever gave those #!*%# people any gifts.
KM
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Maja Stina
Posts: 3622
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
I'm not even sure that you can get away with one as a display.
When I was working with Playboy and had shoots published in almost every issue, I thought it would be a nice thing to make up some hats with the bunny logo and the caption "Playboy Photo Dept." on it.
I had about 20 of them made as Christmas gifts and gave them to all the folks in the photo department and to all the editors.
A week later I got a threatening letter from the Playboy Legal Department informing me that if I was to continue violating their Trademark, they would have no choice but to sue me.
That was the last time I ever gave those #!*%# people any gifts.
KM Yeah, Playboy owns the name, bunny and whatnot and so ANYONE that uses it without their consent is liable to having legal action taken against them. Simple as that.
If you DO decide to do a mock-up magazine cover (though I don't know why you would want to), don't be stupid and post it online. ;-)
I certainly wouldn't do it for a customer, either. If said customer decided to sell "your" magazine cover, you could be in DEEP shit. You wouldn't be able to regulate what the customer did with it. Bad idea, if you ask me.
Just tell your customer that, as a professional, you are not willing to infringe copyright laws. Simple. If they tell you to get bent, just know that you did the right thing and they can go and find a photographer that doesn't care about copyright.
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Innovative Imagery
Posts: 2841
Los Angeles, California, US
Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
I'm not even sure that you can get away with one as a display.
When I was working with Playboy and had shoots published in almost every issue, I thought it would be a nice thing to make up some hats with the bunny logo and the caption "Playboy Photo Dept." on it.
I had about 20 of them made as Christmas gifts and gave them to all the folks in the photo department and to all the editors.
A week later I got a threatening letter from the Playboy Legal Department informing me that if I was to continue violating their Trademark, they would have no choice but to sue me.
That was the last time I ever gave those #!*%# people any gifts.
KM Not quite the same thing as making a sample for your studio, but I appreciate your experience.
By the way, I seem to remember souvenir photo both type places that used to put "your picture on a magazine cover" and I seem to remember Playboy being one of the options.
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Kristina Vassilieva
Posts: 1901
London, England, United Kingdom
Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
I'm not even sure that you can get away with one as a display.
When I was working with Playboy and had shoots published in almost every issue, I thought it would be a nice thing to make up some hats with the bunny logo and the caption "Playboy Photo Dept." on it.
I had about 20 of them made as Christmas gifts and gave them to all the folks in the photo department and to all the editors.
A week later I got a threatening letter from the Playboy Legal Department informing me that if I was to continue violating their Trademark, they would have no choice but to sue me.
That was the last time I ever gave those #!*%# people any gifts.
KM Haha! KM That's genius!
...Who'd've known the cool kids at Playboy had no sense of humour eh...! 
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Rick Dupuis Photography
Posts: 6825
Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
About making a mock up Playboy cover... even changing the font, part of the wording etc....
years ago I was building and selling some die cast cars and like an idiot, I named them 'Skunk Works.' The very first time I put one on ebay it hit the fan. Within about an hour of the start of the auction, ebay pulled the auction and sent me a letter saying if I ever tried to sell something like that again, I would be banned from ebay for life. Later that same day I recieved a rather rude letter from Lockheed telling me that the name 'Skunk Works' in any version now known or 'yet to be disigned' is fully copyrighted. Within 7 days I had a binder of shit from their New York lawyers in which they again said that every single possible way of spelling Skunk Works was copyrighted and that any way of spelling it 'not yet known' is also copyrighted.
I suppose that means is some aliens from a billion light years away show up threatening to blow up the planet if we don't give them all our water, Lockheed will sue them because their ship was built by Skunkworks of Delta Beta 3456.
All I'm saying is, I wouldn't be afraid to say that if Skunk Works is owned in such a way, a company like Playboy has probably done the same thing. I'd say they probably aren't as anal about it though.
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Call it "Play Dude" and change the rabbit silhouette to a beaver maybe or perhaps a buck 
