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Originally Posted by a****84
Ford is not attacking the owners.
Ford is attacking cafepress for printing and profitting from a calender with Ford trademarks on it. BMC and its members has done nothing wrong, they are just caught in the crossfire between Ford and Cafepress. Cafepress was using the Ford name without permission from Ford.
This sort of thing happens quite a bit, everyone is quick to hop on the "Ford sucks" bandwagon but many other companys have done the same thing, Harley-Davidson, Disney, Porsche, among others.
Legally Ford is right on this one, however silly it may seem.
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The problem the calender company is not making the profits from fords logos, they are making the profit from what they supply the paper and the ink.
Also if you a celebrate your likeliness is public property if you expose your self to the public your images are public. That's how the paparazzi make a living, I feel this is the same thing just cars not people.