[GH85Carrera]

The bottom line, if you suspect it is copyrighted, it is. Now if you take a Porsche logo, and make yourself a 6 foot tall sign for your garage, Porsche will not care. If you put that same 6 foot logo for sale on EBAY, you will have the Porsche attorneys all over you.

Any logo for a company is copyrighted.

At the aerial photo company I formally worked at we sold high quality aerial photos, a 16x20 of your property from 1952 was $90 bucks. We had our company name in the corner as part of the image, and it was stamped on the back with copyright information.

The owner of the company was ruthless with copyright enforcement. He happened to go into the lobby of a multi office building and saw a poor quality copy of one of our prints. Right on the front was the name of our business. He knew who we sold the original photo to and he had his attorney send a letter, and then filed suit when there was no reply. He won a $20,000 judgement and the judge explained he was going easy on the defendant because he made multiple copies of other images and he could be fined 20K per image.

My old boss did that multiple times over the years.

If someone called and asked for permission to copy a photo we said no, we sell those for a living, buy from us, and we will make you a good deal if it was a recent order. We did not want low quality copies of our images out on walls or someone looking at it and thinking what a crappy quality print.