Product review legality

  • paigeatwr

    (@paigeatwr)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hello all,

    I have a company and am starting my blog to feature products I am considering adding to my collection. These are all products I love and will say great things about, but I want feedback from my customers. Issue is, is this legal? I know it’s not legal to use someone’s picture, but if I’m writing a review about a company and use their picture with full disclosure and for review purposes is it legal then?

    I see tons of product review sites and I want to know how they do it legally without emailing EVERY SINGLE company.

    Please note: I am not reviewing any product to make a profit, only to showcase what I would like to add and gain feedback.

    Thank you!

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Whenever anyone has a legal question, you really do not want to ask the Internet. 😉

    When in doubt consult a lawyer.

    Thread Starter paigeatwr

    (@paigeatwr)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    I know but I can’t afford a lawyer… Thank you for your help though.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 5 months ago

    I know it’s not legal to use someone’s picture, but if I’m writing a review about a company

    Sounds like you need to contact each company and get individual feedback from them about this legality.

    Thread Starter paigeatwr

    (@paigeatwr)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Dang… That’s what I was worried about. I’ve messaged so many but none have gotten back to me so I was trying to find a way around that…
    thanks 🙂

    Miroslav Glavić

    (@miroslavglavic)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    You can write about ANY company you want. My day time job is Journalist. You might not be.

    You can write about your experience with WordPress, you couldn’t write a post that Matt Mullenweg is corrupt because he is only putting features people who pay him have requested.

    See the difference?

    If you are going to write about a product…lets say a Microsoft keyboard (the one I am typing this with)…You would NOT take the photo from Microsoft or whatever store’s website you got it from. You buy the keyboard then take a photo of the keyboard you bought. You don’t need to ask permission from Microsoft (you can’t include the microsoft logo either).

    Do you understand?

    If you purchase a product…you can take a photo and review it all you want.

    I wrote a review on a WordCamp, I met Matt Mullenweg there, took a photo or two, I used my own photo for the article.

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