Do you have the legal right to publicly display your car? How about the right to sell pictures you've taken of your car? Ford doesn't think so and in a bold move is trying to block a Mustang enthusiast club from selling a Mustang calendar. After all, Ford did design the car, isn't that intellectual property? Its kinda like that big jelly bean sculpture that tourists were banned from photographing in a public park because reproducing the art violated the artist's intellectual rights. So too for Ford.
Heck if you buy a song on iTunes, you get to listen to the music, but you need to pay separate fees for public performance rights, don't you? Did you think that performance rights came bundled into the purchase price of the car? Come on! The poor American automakers need to earn a living somehow, and it sure won't be by innovating in the automotive arena. So they figured they'd try their luck breaking new ground in the court room.
Of course this will definately backfire for Ford. At best they'll win this case and the Mustang group will follow through with their boycott of Ford products. Although much more likely, the judge will curb his laughter just long enough to have the bailiff strike them roughly across the face and thrown down the courthouse steps.
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