Legal issues over depicting World War Two equipment

[TooCool]

Former Older,

All that you say sound nice, but there's a small problem:

NGC never sued against microsoft, as far as I know. why? maybe because microsft may be a too big oponent in court?.. or, maybe, simply because microsoft made certain that no CFS box had any company name on it.

From what I've understood, defense firms threatened to sue ubi, 1C etc, because they used their trademarks on the packages... WWII planes, as such, do not belong to them, as they were financed by tax money.

What's more, I don't remember seeing any company sueing developpers for other games before, nor do I remember them sueing any developper putting online planes like the Grumman Goose and such for FS...

I take planes" photographies... I have a Grumman Wildcat that's displayed in my web gallery... maybe they should sue me too? after all, I published a representation of a plane they built... I even had one of my pics published in a magazine.. figuring a Chance Vought Corsair taking off... why don't they sue me and the magazine who published it?

the reason is simple: it's not about the representation (because, if US law is based on precedency, it's already too late to complain, they've let go for decades), but just because of the inappropriate use of their company name...