If the killer drives an F-250 pickup in a movie. Can Ford sue?
You’ve got to remember, it’s all about endorsed product placements in movies. There’s a contract if your product is used in a movie. The producers make sure of that. Cars, soft drinks, candy (M&Ms are still kicking themselves over ET), and name brand computers and cellular phones. It’s all about advertising.
Watch and notice that Coke cans are always placed so the logo plainly is showing, if that is what is being pushed. Sometimes there is an oddly, but prominently placed soft drink machine you’d never see where it’s located in real life. Product placement. Or you’ll see too many of a particular restaurant chain’s signs. I recall one movie where Subway shops were everywhere. Actors were always having a Sub sandwich. Not too Sub-tle. Product Placement.
Even as early as the old Perry Mason shows in the early 60s there was an announcement in the credits that cars were provided by the Ford Motor Company. They sold a lot of Lincolns due to that. James Bond’s choices were big sellers too. . .
Apple has been KING of product placement for decades. . . It’s one of their primary ways of advertising. They aren’t blatant about it. You just see their products in movies being used. Dell does it too. Samsung tried to start doing it, but was really blatant about it.
Seems many tv dramas/documentaries etc have Of late been digitally blocking out logos on cars/trucks.
A fuzzy blue oval for ford.