Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
Anything published in Japan does not need to follow U.S. copyright rules, just as anything published in the U.S. does not need to follow Japanese copyright rules. (This assumes the documents in question aren't intended for sale in the other country.)
The question is whether UA needs to plaster those (R) registered trademark symbols all over the document. This has nothing to do with copyright.
The document in question is not itself a document for sale. It is not even involved in the selling of goods because it's a listing of what is about to be served for free in an airplane. The question is whether UA needs to so aggressively put (R) symbols all over it, or are covering their asses or something.
Even if there were some legal question, you can quickly find online that there are recommendations that you do not need to repeatedly put the (R) symbol where it has been mentioned / shown once already. Companies owning the trademark need not even put the mark if they don't want to.
By your logic (which I have no idea what point you're debating), every newspaper business article mention of anyone's brands would need to be plastered with (R) symbols.