: Re: Is it acceptable to use props I saw in a movie in my story? I was watching a movie and, in multiple scenes, the characters were using a set of coffee cups that I haven't seen before. I

@Carla500

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I don't see why not. If they were objects unique to a particular movie setting, like the lightsabers in Star Wars, you'd raise a few eyebrows at least, but these are literally just cups. You may as well have seen them in a thrift store. I highly doubt that anyone is going to read your story and recognise that you took those specific cups from a movie, and even if they do, I don't think you'd run into any issues with copyright or trademarks.

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