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Originally Posted by SigilBear
[...]I wish I knew more about the technical aspects of copyrights, trademarks, etc. I just got an e-mail from some agency in New York City telling me I can NOT use the famous "I (Heart) NY" logo in my book, nor can I use any derivative (e.g. I Love VT).[...]
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When I wrote my first series I had an epigraph at the start of each one. The problem was that the second and third books each used a line from (relatively) recent songs. When I worked out all the potential difficulties involved in publishing with those epigraphs I gave up and dropped them. (Which was a shame, I thought they worked really well.)
Given the nature of what you are doing, dropping the images is not really an option - except where you are given no choice, of course. Given the nature of your book I would have thought things like the NT logo should have been acceptable - this is likely one instance where publishing through traditional publishers might get your foot in doors where the general public are excluded.