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Originally Posted by Nugget699
Portraying a logo that's trademarked in a fictional environment (be it a novel, movie or game etc.) is generally considered fine. As long as the use of the logo doesn't confuse the viewer as to who owns the trademark. Which in regards to OOTP would be considered fine (I'm sure if the MLB wanted to they could find a loophole) as the logos are generally being used with the correct team name. Although people who use current MLB logos for fictional teams could, in theory, be in hot water.
As logos from CC are not trademarked they generally fall under "All Rights Reserved" to prevent people from pinching them. It'd be exactly the same as someone using your holiday snaps on Facebook without your permission.
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If I'm not mistaken, 'All Rights Reserved' is a phrase used under Copyright Law. Unless the folks at CC's copyright their material, 'All Rights Reserved' does not apply. And for 90% of those concepts I'm not sure they could even legally copyright them since they are using someone else's intellectual property (which probably is copyrighted or trademarked).