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Old 11-16-2008, 01:06 PM   #7 (permalink)
Tess Whitcroft
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It sounds to me like they are requiring the website owner to either

At his own expense become an expert in Toyota so that he could identify every real Toyota, ancient and modern, on the web site

Remove every image that "might" be a Toyota

Pay Toyota to tell him what images are really theirs.



Aside from being stupid this is just wrong in many other ways.

For example. What if I go to the near by Ferrari dealership and park a Toyota in the midst of all the Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and get a small group of well dressed folk to gather around it staring at it and ignoring all the fancy cars all around. I take a picture and make a desktop background of it and put it on this website.

It could well turn out to be a popular desktop. It is funny and yet speaks well of Toyota. I took the picture myself. I have the permission of the Ferrari Dealer and the owners of all the cars in the picture including the Toyota. And yet if I read corrently the web site owner is being told to remove it?

Can Toyota really even do that?


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