Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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?"

6 of 739 comments (clear)

  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.

    --
    This guy's the limit!
    1. Re:EULA by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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

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

    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.
  4. 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.

    --
    512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
  5. Re:Nope. by merc · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    --
    It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.