Can I use my own photo of an Airbus A380 on a commercial website?
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I found Airbus image-use guidelines, but they appear to apply to photos downloaded from the Airbus Photo Gallery. I want to use a large front-page image of an A380 on a commercial website, but the photo was taken by me, not obtained from Airbus. Do Airbus’s gallery usage rules apply to my own photo, or are there separate copyright/trademark issues to consider when using an aircraft image commercially?
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The guidelines you quoted are only for images obtained from Airbus, they simply do not apply to any images taken by you.
Any image you don't get from Airbus is not subject to their image use guidelines, technically speaking Airbus as no rights to your picture and can't tell you what to do with it - but you are subject to normal trademark/copyright law (the Airbus branding is obviously trademarked and the plane design may or may not be copyrighted).
I don't know if you can use the image or not, copyright/trademark law can be complex sometimes - and I'm not a lawyer and so not really qualified to answer your question, I've looked for trademark usage guidelines on the Airbus site and couldn't find any.
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Based on the guidance quoted, those Airbus rules apply to images obtained from the Airbus Photo Gallery, not to a photo you took yourself. So their download/use terms would not govern your own image.
That said, taking the photo yourself does not automatically remove all legal issues. You would normally own the copyright in your photo, but Airbus branding is trademarked, and there may be other trademark or related commercial-use considerations depending on how the image is used.
So the practical answer is: Airbus’s photo-gallery restrictions do not appear to apply to your self-shot image, but you should still consider ordinary trademark/copyright law before using it prominently on a commercial site. If the use is important commercially, get legal advice.
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