Okay, I was wondering if the cakes that are decorated without toys (shaped cakes that look like disney or other characters; ex: wall-e, Cars, spiderman and etc.) are decorated by homebakers or do you own a bakery? I ask this because I see a lot of these beautiful cakes, but I thought that because of copyright laws bakeries couldn't sell these cakes. I was just wondering because I would love to get better at making cakes like this, but my dream is to open a bakery someday. I didn't know if I finally got good at it, if I would be able to even sell it out of my "future" bakery. Thanks!!

They are either decorated by home bakers or by people willing to risk the huge fines for breaking copyright law for selling them. The shaped pans are for HOME use only (they say so right on them). It is NOT legal to sell them. If you carve or create a licensed character cake freehand or using RKT/fondant/gumpaste/etc. it is NOT legal to sell the cake. The ONLY legal way to sell copyrighted character themed cakes is to use the kits like grocery store bakeries use. Part of the license agreement to purchasing the kits from the licensed supplier is to do the cake design provided with the kit.

Clarification for my own good - I know you cannot use any licensed character pans to make/sell cakes. But, you can use others pans - guitar, ducky, 3D car as long as it doesn't say home use only?