Selling, Question About Licensing

Decorating By clouks Updated 5 Oct 2007 , 1:53pm by clouks

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clouks Posted 5 Oct 2007 , 1:29pm
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Hi there everyone! I am VERY new to all of this and I had a question. On another forum I read someone responded to a post and said that if the cake that someone was making was of a licensed character that they could not sell it. Is this true? I am not selling right now, as I said I am very very new to cake decorating and will be doing a lot of practice and classes WELL BEFORE I take my first order. But just for future refrence......can I not sell a cake that someone orders if it is of a licensed character? And how do I know if that character is licensed?

Thanks in advance for any help and advice!!!

Happy Decorating,
Casey

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Launa Posted 5 Oct 2007 , 1:34pm
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The pan will say on the bottom, "for home use only" if it is a licensed pan. These are the usually the character pans from Disney, PBS, etc. and not generic pans like flowers or teddy bears. And you are correct, you cannot sell a cake made from a licensed pan

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clouks Posted 5 Oct 2007 , 1:43pm
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Wow, well, good to know! Thank you for the help!!

Happy Decorating,
Casey

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pastryjen Posted 5 Oct 2007 , 1:44pm
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You can try a search for copyrighted cakes and will come up with a lot of threads. It sounds like the only way to get around it is to sell the base cake (not a shaped pan) and then the customer (not you) may place on toys (dolls, cars, Barbies) that they have purchased.

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clouks Posted 5 Oct 2007 , 1:53pm
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That is kid of what I was thinking. Make the base cake and decorate it to incorperate the toys, but let the customer add those when I deliver. That would probably be the only way around it I would think.

Thanks again for the help. I am still new to the site and everything so I wasn't sure where to post this and where to look for other threads like it.

Happy Decorating!
Casey

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