Does anyone know if it's possible to copyright a logo from a company that is no longer in business? There is a local company that has been out of business for decades. I was looking at getting some t-shirts made up for people that might be interested in them, but someone mentioned that a t-shirt place may not produce them because the logo has a copyright on it (or probably a Trade Mark I guess). If I was unable to talk the t-shirt place into making them, the idea struck me to try to gain the rights to the logo myself.

Does anyone know if something like this is possible? Would it be mega expensive because I'd have to hire a lawyer or is something like this impossible to gain rights to because it's considered public domain?