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Originally Posted by Sly
No, not really. People like Coke, Pepsi, and many other corporate identities have sued others for using their trademarked products for various reasons, including photographs, movies, etc... you get the drill. Copyright infringement in the United States is a pretty big deal, many foreigners don't quite understand the grasp of the situation because their countries aren't as anal about copyright infringement.
All in all, nothing will probably come of this. But why Alien would even open himself up to the possibility of something happening with a big name author such as Anne Rice is beyond me. He could have gotten the same effect out of that image by using a lesser known author and reducing his risk at the same time.
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Back in the early 80s Iron Maiden released the album "Piece of Mind," on the album was a song that Steve Harris wrote that was based on a book by Frank Herbert. The song was going to be called "Dune" after the book, but Frank Herbert decided that he hated metal music and that if Iron Maiden called the song "Dune" then he would sue them and stop the album from coming out and doing everything else he could to cost them money and fuck them up. If you look on that album now, they ended up calling the song "To Tame A Land."
The moral of this story - if an author can sue a band for titling a song after his book then it seems to me that an author can sure as fuck sue for having the book shown in a porn shoot.
