I am no expert but it depends on whether you profit from the sale of the
calenders.
Porsche and others would look like real bad guys if they went after some
bloke who did a favour for a group of owners.
Sure technically they got the whole thing sown up to protect their
intellectual property/trademark but they would have to show cause as to
how they suffered as a result of you creating a calender,
They may argue perhaps, that instead of buying the official calender
from Porsche, they bought yours.
Also I am free to publish photos of my car, as long as I don't profit
from it, such as creating the 300TE calender.
Then there is question of who owns the right to buildings, the
architect, the builder, the owner, no one.
Such as the Eiffel tower or even the statue of liberty.
Are they public domain.
Then there is facebook, who claim to own every picture posted there, so
if I posted a picture of my 300TE in front of the Sydney opera house,
would they own it and be able to make a calender from it?
What about the less famous models, such as the S124, we all know that
the Gullwing is copyrighted or whatever by Daimler but did they bother
with the S124 or do they do it automatically for every car?
Far as race cars go, I think you would still need the permission of the
owner if you where going to profit from the picture of their car.
Hendrik
whose brain is now hurting, so will stop thinking for a while
On 07/08/13 04:55, Larry T wrote:
Speaking of owning designs and such -- back when I owned a small (very
small) publishng company I thought it's be nice to produce some
calendars showing the Porsche 911s owned by members of forum I
participate in. After collecting lots of great photos from list
members I decided to ask Porsche for permission to publish a calendar
showing the Porsches. Because I didn't want to spend $10K - $20K for
printing and end up with paperweights if I were to receive a "cease &
desist Order" from Porsche. Sure enough, they claim to own the
designs and therefore the images of any type showing "their" 911s -
whether provided by the current owners of the cars or not! Talk about
control!
So you think you own your Mercedes? Try to publish a photo of it.
Naturally MB would only chase someone if it were a big deal...
Ain't that a hoot??
Surprising (to me at least) is that race cars are not copyrighted in
the same way as production cars are, so I could publish race cars but
not street cars.....
LarryT
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
