According to howto:copyright, trademarks that do not have character tags under them should not be categorized as Copyright. This has been the consensus as reflected by forum posts such as forum #78146, forum #164719, forum #328964, and BURs such as BUR #35186.

Hence, I'd like to propose that the following trademark tags be recategorized as General. Since I'm not certain about all of them, I won't submit a BUR just yet and hope to receive some opinions. Would also appreciate additions to the list.

Music, cameras, and electronics

• Canon_(Company), manufacturer of optical and imaging products such as cameras, scanners, and printers
• Casio, manufacturer of electronics such as watches, instruments, calculators, and medical devices
• Dolby, technology company specializing in audio and HDR display
• Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, guitar, amplifier, and effect pedal manufacturer
• Hasselblad, camera manufacturer
• Hewlett-Packard, manufacturers various IT infrastructure products including PC, workstations, servers, and printers
• JVC, consumer and professional electronics company; developer of the VHS
• Nippon Columbia, Japanese record label
• NVIDIA, unlike Intel with Intel (Intel-Senpai), or AMD with Amada Kokoro, NVIDIA does not have a character tag yet
• Panasonic Corporation, manufactures a wide range of products including consumer electronics and house appliances.
• National_(Panasonic), trademark owned by Panasonic Corporation
• Skullcandy, headphone and speaker manufacturer
• Yamaha, it developed Vocaloid but the latter does not imply it, so not sure if it should be a copyright

Aircrafts and airlines

These airlines have official collaborations with copyrights like Kantai Collection. They are also depicted in humanization projects like Flight Airplanes. Not sure if that justifies the copyright status.

• Air France
• All Nippon Airways
• Peach_(Airline)
• Japan Airlines
• Singapore Airlines

These airlines did not officially collaborate with copyrights. Their uniforms may have been referenced in fanart.

• Aeroflot
• British_Airways
• Cathay_Pacific
• China Southern Airlines
• Emirates (Airline)
• Jetstar
• KLM
• LOT Polish Airlines
• Lufthansa
• Thai Airways
• Virgin_Atlantic

These aircraft manufacturers may have humanization fanart, or even humanization projects like Flight Highschool

• Airbus
• Boeing
• Lockheed Martin
• Saab, sharing brand name with formerly-related car manufacturer Saab

This is a fictional aircraft manufacturer that is a brand name imitation of Northrop Grumman

• Southrop Gruman

Cars, trucks, and heavy machinery

• Castrol, manufacturer of industrial and automotive lubricant
• HKS, after-market car parts
• Komatsu (Company), manufacturer of construction, mining, forestry, and military heavy equipment
• Mobil1, a brand of motor oil from oil company Mobil, so should not have been a copyright anyway
• Petronas, oil company
• Pirelli, tire manufacturer; unlike Michelin, it does not have a mascot
• Scania, truck manufacturer
• Siemens, engineering company with focuses on automation, industrial software, rail transportation, and medical devices
• Toyota Gazoo Racing, has officially collaborated with KanColle, but to the best of my knowledge all existing posts that crossover with other copyrights are fanart see forum #387760
• Tyrrell, racing team see forum #387760

Others

• Dior, luxury fashion brand
• Chanel, luxury fashion brand
• Kick.com, streaming platform
• Lipton, brand of tea and tea-based beverages
• Marlboro, cigarette brand
• TBS, Japanese media and broadcasting company, produced lots of copyrights, but not sure if itself needs to be one see forum #387091

BUR #47582 has been approved by @evazion.

category canon_(company) -> general
category casio -> general
category dolby -> general
category fender_musical_instruments_corporation -> general
category hasselblad -> general
category hewlett-packard -> general
category jvc -> general
category nippon_columbia -> general
category nvidia -> general
category panasonic_corporation -> general
category national_(panasonic) -> general
category skullcandy -> general
category yamaha -> general

I'm fairly certain tags in Music, cameras, and electronics don't have character tags associated, nor do they otherwise justify being copyright tags through situations like forum #341828. I've made sure none of the posts affected by this BUR will be copyrightless if it gets approved.

I'll wait a bit for the other tags in case there are discussions.

I still believe that entertainment companies holding multiple copyrights like TBS should be copytags.
I don't have any good reason to justify it, other than the fact that those tags are primarily seen in company_connection posts, and keeping them down under the list of gentags may confuse others as to what the connection is about.

look_at_these_fancams said:

I still believe that entertainment companies holding multiple copyrights like TBS should be copytags.
I don't have any good reason to justify it, other than the fact that those tags are primarily seen in company_connection posts, and keeping them down under the list of gentags may confuse others as to what the connection is about.

Noted, I'll exclude TBS from BUR.

BUR #47599 has been approved by @evazion.

mass update ~gomira_(national) ~hayabusa_(national) -> tsuburaya_productions
rename gomira_(national) -> gomira_(tsuburaya_productions)
rename hayabusa_(national) -> hayabusa_(tsuburaya_productions)

Regarding National_(Panasonic), Damian (user #554505) notified me that Gomira (National) and Hayabusa (National) are associated with the tag. Those characters were created by Tsuburaya Productions for commercials of National's vacuum cleaners, so I believe they should use Tsuburaya Productions as copyright tags. Accordingly, the qualifiers of Gomira and Hayabusa should be Tsuburaya_Productions.

BUR #47645 has been approved by @evazion.

category chanel -> general
category dior -> general

These two luxury fashion brands do not have any characters associated with them from what I can see and therefore definitely need to be moved to general with all the other luxury fashion brands.

The bulk update request #47582 (forum #387088) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47645 (forum #387278) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47599 (forum #387176) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #47736 has been approved by @evazion.

category the_north_face -> general

From what I can tell, there are no associated characters with The North Face. the_north_face copytags:1 chartags:>0 also returns an empty set.

8253803 said:

• Toyota Gazoo Racing, has officially collaborated with KanColle, but to the best of my knowledge all existing posts that crossover with other copyrights are fanart
• Tyrrell, racing team

I believe these should stay as copyright tags - motorsports teams are sports teams, and should be treated the same way as traditional ball sport teams and e-sport teams, which are tagged as copyrights. In the same way that the players and coaches in sports and esports teams can be considered their characters, the drivers and race queens can be considered the characters of motorsports teams.

HeeroWingZero said:

I believe these should stay as copyright tags - motorsports teams are sports teams, and should be treated the same way as traditional ball sport teams and e-sport teams, which are tagged as copyrights. In the same way that the players and coaches in sports and esports teams can be considered their characters, the drivers and race queens can be considered the characters of motorsports teams.

That is a good point. I agree they should remain copyright tags.

BUR #47797 has been approved by @evazion.

category castrol -> general
category hks -> general
category komatsu_(company) -> general
category mobil1 -> general
category petronas -> general
category pirelli -> general
category scania -> general
category siemens -> general

For the Cars, trucks, and heavy machinery section

BUR #47798 has been approved by @evazion.

category kick.com -> general
category lipton -> general
category marlboro -> general

For the three remaining entries under Others

BUR #47799 has been approved by @evazion.

nuke southrop_gruman

It is a one-off brand name imitation of Northrop Grumman used only in post #2542873.

The bulk update request #47799 (forum #387807) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47736 (forum #387634) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47798 (forum #387806) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47797 (forum #387805) has been approved by @evazion.

Marlboro technically has the Marlboro Man as a mascot, but we don't have any posts of him unless post #6217695 counts. And some of these tags like HKS could use a qualifier to avoid confusion.