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Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures
Mike Rogers writes "In a move that can only be described as 'Copyright Insanity', Ford Motor Company now claims that they hold the rights to any image of a Ford vehicle, even if it's a picture you took of your own car. The Black Mustang Club wanted to put together a calendar featuring member's cars and print it through CafePress, but an attorney from Ford nixed the project, stating that the calendar pics and 'anything with one of (member's) cars in it infringes on Ford's trademarks which include the use of images of their vehicles.' Does Ford have the right to prevent you from printing images of a car you own?"
Does Ford have the right to prevent you from printing images of a car you own?
Hold on a moment. Let me get the EULA out of the glove box.
This guy's the limit!
Yeah, you know, maker of the dustang!
I was going to use a car analogy to show how ridiculous this was...
All your images are belong to us.
Bold moves indeed.
I've heard a lot of stupid claims over intellectual "property" before, but this one really takes the cake*.
(*used with permission from Duncan Hines, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Foods Group, LLC.)
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Profits?
We're talking about ford, right?
I think you mean hit them with more losses.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Yes but let's use yet another car analogy here, what if Ford.... oh wait.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
They don't sell the image for profit, but they absolutely are using the images as a source of revenues. Where do we draw the line?
Anything you say will be held against you.
I'll just have to return to my previous hobby, taking pictures of Chevy trucks sporting a window sticker with Calvin peeing on the Ford logo.
Staples just called. You'll need to retract your 'That was easy' post.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Also widely known as the Ford "Crustang", "Rustang", "Mustake", and "My Little Pony" where I come from.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
This ought to do it: This car is not what you think it is.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Companies who weren't ruled by morons encouraged consumers to create calendars with their cars in it. The referred to this bizarre practice as "free advertising".
Sigh... so much for the days when the average slashdot user wasn't a lawyer ;-)
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