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My feeling is that unless the brand name plays a critical part in your story, don't use it. You don't want to risk the wrath of corporate lawyers unless you absolutely must. Why build your entire s...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-13T12:00:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T03:37:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
My feeling is that unless the brand name plays a critical part in your story, don't use it. You don't want to risk the wrath of corporate lawyers unless you absolutely must. Why build your entire story around "do you eat the cookie part of the Oreo or the cream?" and then have Nabisco refuse to give you permission, so you have to rewrite it as "chocolate wafer sandwich cookie"?
#1: Imported from external source
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2014-07-12T11:31:27Z (over 10 years ago)
Original score: 2