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Originally Posted by Geezer
WHAT????? A person can't even take photos of their own car? Stupid! How can a car company prevent anyone for taking photos regardless of the "material?"
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Of course you can take pictures of your own car. But buying a car doesn't automatically mean you're buying the rights to use it in commercial photography. And FTV is commercial photography.
No car company can prevent you from taking pictures of their cars and using them for your purposes but when they get aware of it (for example because of a huge spam email with Lia19/Mercedes SLR-pictures which was passed around) they can send you a c&d (cease and desist order) to stop you from publishing this material which happened to FTV as far as I know. I know that's stupid but its a fact.
Well, I have saved these Lia19/Mercedes SLR-pictures and as a little tease for Mercedes here's one of them:
