Cake copyright

Cakes, as edible art, can be an artistic medium for displaying an image or portraying a character.

Entertainment media organizations including Disney, Lucasfilm, and Sanrio have asserted that cakes should not portray their copyrighted fictional characters or their copyrighted images without licensing.

[5] In 2012, President Barack Obama of the United States had celebrity pastry chef Duff Goldman design a cake for a party celebrating his second inauguration.

[6][7] In 2017, President Donald Trump had a Washington, D.C. bakery[8] replicate Obama's cake made for his inauguration.

[6][7] The matter raised the profile of copyright questions about cakes.

The Wikipedia logo is licensed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA) and is thus permissible to use for making cakes, such as this red velvet cake .