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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. Form? by calebt3 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Form Motor Company?

  2. Ford should be happy people are BUYING their cars. by THESuperShawn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From Motley Fool and other select websites...

    "So far this year, Ford's North American business has lost more than $1.4 billion and the cash reserves dwindled to $19.6 billion from $21.8 billion in the third quarter, according to the company's financial report."

    "The red ink in the third quarter included a $1.2 billion loss by the company's North American operations, the company reported. So far this year U.S. sales of Ford vehicles are down 1.3 percent, despite a massive discount program that helped clear inventory of unsold vehicles."

    Hmmm...

    1. Make cars deemed as inferior to their import counterparts
    2. Use unions that add about $1500.00 overhead to each car in pensions and health care
    3. ??????
    4. Profit!

    I am guessing number 3 should be "piss off those who actually bought our cars by refusing to let them take pictures of them".

    Then again, I majored in engineering, not business.

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  3. Re:Seems good news by calebt3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up.