Creating a car poster - is it legal?

[bncinc]

What is the name of your state? Florida

I'm in the car industry and I want to know if I can create a car poster and sell it? Like all the Chevys from 1969 - profiles of each. Is this legal?

Thanks for your help!

[seniorjudge]

Originally Posted by bncinc

What is the name of your state? Florida

I'm in the car industry and I want to know if I can create a car poster and sell it? Like all the Chevys from 1969 - profiles of each. Is this legal?

Thanks for your help!

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[divgradcurl]

Originally Posted by bncinc

What is the name of your state? Florida

I'm in the car industry and I want to know if I can create a car poster and sell it? Like all the Chevys from 1969 - profiles of each. Is this legal?

Thanks for your help!

You can, of course, take a photograph of a car and make a poster out of it. You can even sell as a poster of a 1969 Corvette L-88 or whatever. You probably cannot add a Chevy logo, or any other trademarked logo, name or slogan, without getting into potential trademark problems. Of course, if the logos or whatever are just in the photograph of the car -- such as the "Stingray" badge on the side of the aforementioned 'Vetter -- that's okay. But writing "Stingray" in the Chevy script and superimposing it on the poster, that might be problematic unless you have permission from GM.

And it goes without saying, you can't use a picture taken by somebody else to make the poster unless you have permission to use the picture.

[bncinc]

^ Thanks for the answer!

Originally Posted by seniorjudge

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