Hi all,

I was wondering whether someone can take a picture of their ownor a friend's Corvette, have it made into embroidery stitches (pay for it to be done)and have the Corvette stitched on their jackets, etc. Can the person who made the picture into stitches (digitizer)sell the design they made from the picture or use the design to embroider onto saleable garments? Can the person who paid for the embroidery design to be made sell the items stitched with the design of their car? Does anyone know GM's position on this?

Tina

 

I would think there would be licensing concerns.

 

Most definitely there are licensing problems when you reproduce an item that is licensed and you have not received consent nor paid for consent.

 

1) you take a picture of a car (any car in a public area), and have it stitched into a shirt/jacket, or put on a calendar... yes. perfectly legal.

2) digitizer takes your picture and re-uses it for profit... maybe, depending on the ownership of the image, usually specified in the digitizing agreement. If it *isn't* specified, then you still own the image (copyright), and have control over derivative works, provided that your original can be recognized as a primary source of content (in the music business, "sampling"... in art, drawing while using some picture as a reference or model, etc.).

3) the person who took the picture wants to sell items with that picture and derivative works on it... yes, absolutely.

GM (or goodyear, or Cragar wheels, etc.) have no control over your images as long as they are taken in a public setting, or a setting under your control (your house, etc.), and as long as they do not attempt to damage the name or brand represented in some obvious way.

not a lawyer, but I stayed a a holiday in express (and talked to my brother in law, the lawyer in the family).

bill.

 

Of course.

I think the OP's questionwas misunderstood.

Here's one place, pot... (see the card in the pic)

https://www.corvetteforums.com/m_38731/tm.htm