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first of all very nice photograph. well done.
as for the copyright issue I think it one of the most confusing topics in   stock photography,but I personally would have removed this small detail before uploading no mater if I agree about copyright infringement  risk or not and   I'd expect IS to come up with something like that. I'd also remove the pumpkin picture on the  t-shirt
Recently I took a photo of a baby wearing a t-shirt but I hadn't paid much attention so I  hadn't realized it had  picture on it. Then I tried to remove the pic but it was sort of difficult   one  as the t-shirt was stripy and crispy and  I gave up and didn't upload it anywhere although it had a good potential to sale.I might try to re edit though.
at least you are lucky it doesn't seem to be too complex to remove these thingies.

Good luck

And I agree too.

It all comes down to the increasingly litigious nature of our society these days.

There is a place for taking legal action against companies or individuals who are wantonly careless or who openly steal copyrighted ideas, etc. But, unfortunately,  people sue for the most ridiculous reasons nowadays. And they sometimes get awarded ridiculous amounts of damages.

And there's no such thing as a free lunch. In return, companies/organisations etc. become ridiculously cautious.

There was a case in UK this summer of a local council who removed all the hanging baskets of flowers from the town centre in case one broke free from its hanging and fell on someone's head.

Who's the loser in situations like this?

This is America! Everyone can sue everyone, for everything.... this is just ridiculous.

In my country there is no copyright law, so in theory you can have all software (windows, etc...) "legaly" pirated, and nobody will do nothing. You can easily go to police station and say: "hey, I have pirated widnows, office, and whole bunch of other software..." And they will say: "get outta here, we have some real work to do....". Not to mention photgraphy copyright....


But I also keep in mind copyright laws, and remove everything that might be copyright protected, but it is ridiculous. Come on, few letters on socks is protected, what's next? The dot printed on a paper will be protected too.... nice...

I am becoming paranoid about copyright and more again about trademarks. I never know when an object is in these situation. Sometime I try to pass whit for example, a pair of cleats isolated on white. Then it's accepted at different places and others not. Very confusing.

I now try to take pictures of things who are manufactured by multiple companies. It decrease the risk that the object is too particular and at the same time protected by law

This is my experience of rejected objects for copyright issue (Even if the logos are off): Cleats, game cards, teddy bear, some boats...

Thanks for the input everyone. Every single other agency accepted the image. There doesn´t seem to be a continuity.

It´s just one thing I don´t really understand.

If I were a company, I would be happy to have my products shown on pics. Well, actually they pay a lot of money for advertisments - just to show their produce. The more obvious, the better.

And I would sue, if they remove the logo from my t-shirt, because I have the right to have my logo on my t-shirt!!!

I wonder if these things will change sometime.

Of course there there's no continuity. Every agency is a different business. They have different standards and different objectives.

Believe it or not, some of them are even located in different countries.