Legal Question in Entertainment Law in Florida
Logo Copyright
I'm musician in a band. About 8 months ago our former band member had a friend design a logo for us. We've used this logo free uf charge for the last 8 months as the designer made the logo free of charge for us (as a friendly gesture to his buddy) We decided to get rid of this member in the band and now he has written us saying that his friend will be writing us a cease and desist letter because we own him a copyright payment for the logo. Is there a certain statue of limitations on graphic arts. We've been using this logo for some time with this individual's knowledge, under the pretences that it was designed as a friendly guesture for our former member? Our former member is clearly trying to sabatoge the band for spite. Thanks for your help.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Logo Copyright
You can argue about this issue or simply start using a different logo. You might not need to change it much.