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Captain Chaos
7th May 2014, 22:58
I'm an animation student, for those who don't know, and in my future in animation I want to create my own animated series about drivers in a motorsport.

One idea I was thinking of was making it about fictional drivers in Formula 1. But what about the legalities of using that name? Would I have to pay royalties to someone to have Formula 1 in the show's name?

anfield5
7th May 2014, 23:19
I would guess yes. Formula 1 and F1 are owned trade marks, along with almost every other title with these words included.

Terms like Grand Prix etc are just words and can be used

D-Type
8th May 2014, 00:22
I'm not a lawyer, but this site http://www.boyesturner.com/news-article.html?id=1495 suggests that Formula 1 Licencing have not managed to claim absolute ownership of the term "Formula 1". Try a web search for something like Formula 1 Trade Mark and see what comes up.

Captain Chaos
8th May 2014, 00:44
*looks up what D-Type recommended*

Blast it all! I'm too much of a cheapskate for said concept.

Tazio
8th May 2014, 04:24
Just call it formula Juan...dukie

schmenke
8th May 2014, 17:55
"Formula Circus"

:stareup:

Big Ben
9th May 2014, 12:10
Call it Formula Show and soon enough they'll buy the naming rights from you... nope, wait... why don't I do that?

Mark
12th May 2014, 12:04
There already is one, it's called "Rory the Racing Car" and it's 100% realistic :D

Peter Kay is excellent in it :D