Originally Posted by stewart_photo
Actually, since Ford spent many millions designing and marketing the shape, layout, and look of your Tempo (and you didn't), they can indeed say something. Again, the design, shape, layout, likeness, and so on, of a vehicle is called intellectual property and, under international trademark laws, Ford has complete ownership of those things.
Think about it for a moment, Stu. You own the photographic images you take. This is your intellectual property. If I took one of your images and simply removed your name, would you feel that gives me the right to do whatever I want with your image - say it's mine, sell it, make money, and so on? Now apply the same logic to Ford's intellectual property.
stewart
In all reality Stewart my Tempo looked more like the Mercedes Ford copied after I changed the grill, lights and bumpers.
So it isn't really their design anyways.
Car companies are famous for this practice. Ford copied the Dodge pickup, and Chevy did the same thing a few years later.
After some of these people re-design their car bodies isn't it like saying that you can't publish your photograph of that fence, because I photographed it first. And had my work published
