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Original post by Mike2343 I look at it this way. Books use the legit names (Tom Clancy for example), so why cannot games? I'm by no means a lawyer but as long as you're not painting their product in a negative light you should be fine? Bah.

What % of a Clancy book is made up of the name of a particular weapon? A particular name may get used once or twice in a whole book. Likewise in a film (although in the case of films they almost certainly have got permission to use them from the maker) - now look at a flight sim in which you fly an F14. What % of the game does that F14 feature prominently in? 99.9%

It is always a complex matter of degrees and context.