Well, I sure as shit won’t show any Eagles album covers!
To be fair, there’s plenty of room…
[parts venetian blinds, looking for IP attorneys rolling up]
Album cover images are all over Discogs, which, as a fledgling record peddler, I am guessing you are familiar with.
Indeed, and I thought of that. But the thumbnails on Discogs always pertain directly to the album they’re rating or marketing, whereas I may tempt legal purgatory by using an album cover image to promote the general idea that I sell this record and other records like it.
There’s an interesting dispute in Canada over the Guess Who and their name and songs. Apparently one of the lesser members managed to trademark the band name years later and tours (toured?) with a “cover band”. I heard an interview where Burton Cummings in his best old-man-get-off-my-lawn voice suggests the guy lied to obtain the trademark. In response, both Cumming and Randy Bachman have apparently forbidden the band to play the iconic songs that they are known for. (Complaint was that publicity material included playing the recorded songs from the 70’s, implying the band “coming soon to a location near you” was the original band, when sometimes 1 sometimes none of the band members were the originals on those recordings).
Ah, legal disputes…
I would think many well known movie actors likeness are copyright/trademarked, even after death. Mickey Mouse (not dead yet, getting better!) is trademarked, but images of Mickey from Steamboat Willie are public domain - so tread carefully.
To return to the OP, I guess the question would always be - how closely do the images relate to the items for sale?
As for Beato, the only thing I can think of is that he’s had some interesting past run-in with Eagles lawyers, possibly for overdoing something once upon a time - or he’s doing the Lebowski thing and hating them on principle. Other than that, there’s no logical reason for his inability to say their name.
I thought that you could include copyrighted music in videos you put up on YouTube and that it simply compensates the rights-owner for every view of your video. I’ve used much more than 2 seconds of copyrighted music (sometimes the entire song) in YT vids myself.
I’ll readily admit to not personally experiencing the rules since I don’t make Youtube videos. I’m just going off of creator comments while demonstrating a piece of audio equipment or video game (with music), etc.