: Re: Is it considered trademark infringement to use the name of a real business in a novel? I am writing a pivotal scene for my novel that is set in Red Square of Moscow. A very wealthy bureaucrat

@Welton431

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Your main concern regarding the use of "real" businesses is "defamation."

So use real businesses only for the "background" for your work of fiction, not a main setting. For instance, "The loving couple stopped at a McDonald's for lunch, before heading to the park to make out." What you don't want to do is to allege that the couple actually had sex in a McDonald's outlet (and management let them do so).

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