Ford versus the Little Guy

[Teddington]

Here's a thread regarding a car forum who prints a calendar each year that features photos of the Member of the Month's black Ford Mustang and Ford Motor Company has sent their legal beagles out to shut them down. It seems Ford is claiming that Ford owns the trademarks to the car and to publish photos and logos of them in a calendar will violate their trademarks. The original thread is from www.thelaw.com

[http://www.thelaw.com/forums/showthr...5205#post45205

And while I'm pleased to report that FMC backed down and "permitted" the publishing of the calendar, it raises an interesting question, especially considering most of the cars featured in the photos are heavily customized with aftermarket wheels, tires, body kits, etc. Here's a link to the Black Mustang Club website that has a chronology of the incident.

http://www.bmcforums.com/showthread.php?t=42681

It's interesting that a car company sucking their last breath through their teeth is worried about someone printing cool photos of cwner's cars and getting free publicity with it.

[Citex]

I'm a member of that site for some years now and it was a good thing it was resolved it had me worried since I take car photos allot. It wasn't Ford it was Cafe Press the printing company bending the rules cause in the past they were sent stuff from ford telling them to remove some other stuff with ford logos etc.