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MRRiley · 01-15-2008, 12:00 PM

I'll chime in here to agree with Stewart and PDL...

Ford has a leg or 3 to stand on here. The main issue is not so much that the images simply contained Ford Mustangs but that they were the unquestioned subjects in those photos and the calendar was being published by an unofficial fan club using the Mustang name.

If this had been a landscape calendar by the "Big Sky Club" and some of the photos incidentally had Fords or Dodges or Chevys in them as minor elements there likely wouldnt be much of a problem. However the image of the car is being used to promote and profit a non-affiliated fan club.

Heck, Pentax could complain if Adam started selling a Pentax Camera calendar.

01-15-2008, 12:00 PM	#16
MRRiley Pentaxian Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sterling, Virginia, USA Gallery Photos: 26 Posts: 1,339	I'll chime in here to agree with Stewart and PDL... Ford has a leg or 3 to stand on here. The main issue is not so much that the images simply contained Ford Mustangs but that they were the unquestioned subjects in those photos and the calendar was being published by an unofficial fan club using the Mustang name. If this had been a landscape calendar by the "Big Sky Club" and some of the photos incidentally had Fords or Dodges or Chevys in them as minor elements there likely wouldnt be much of a problem. However the image of the car is being used to promote and profit a non-affiliated fan club. Heck, Pentax could complain if Adam started selling a Pentax Camera calendar. __________________ Michael R. Riley (Mike) / Carpe Luminous Photography - Sterling, VA Michael Riley at Photo.Net and at the Pentax Photo Gallery. PENTAX K10D, K110D, DA16-45mm, DA18-55mm & DA50-200mm, a Tamron 28-75mm f2.8, a Sigma 50-500 "BIGMA", & a handful of vintage Pentax and other lenses... Last edited by MRRiley; 01-15-2008 at 12:13 PM..