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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 motor company....Hooray! by strongmace · · Score: 0, Troll

    Form motor company, where the cars are stylish.

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    "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." -Zapp Brannigan
  2. Re:people own the *cars*, too, and their pics by bane2571 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try this, get a big, familiar yellow M and copy it onto a bunch of red t-shirts. See how long it takes for you to get a Mac. lawsuit when you try to sell them. Sure, you aren't selling burger but you are still infringing trademark. The fact is Ford has licensed companies to sell Ford branded calenders. How would it look to those companies if Ford let the BMC get away with doing it for free?