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Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the like-a-child-shouting-MINE dept.

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?"

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  1. EULA by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:EULA by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I think Ford is going into extinction by making shitty cars.

  2. Re:Form? by bonkeydcow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, you know, maker of the dustang!

  3. Huh by pwnies · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to use a car analogy to show how ridiculous this was...

  4. It's obvious! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Funny

    All your images are belong to us.

  5. heh heh by 427_ci_505 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bold moves indeed.

  6. Stupid by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.)

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  7. Re:Boycotting Ford.... by deft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Profits?

    We're talking about ford, right?

    I think you mean hit them with more losses.

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  8. Re:Dangerous precedent by nolife · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes but let's use yet another car analogy here, what if Ford.... oh wait.

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  9. Oh well by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Form? by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also widely known as the Ford "Crustang", "Rustang", "Mustake", and "My Little Pony" where I come from.

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  11. As requested. by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    This ought to do it: This car is not what you think it is.

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  12. In other news... by CF4L · · Score: 4, Funny

    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".

  13. Re:Nope. by merc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sigh... so much for the days when the average slashdot user wasn't a lawyer ;-)

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