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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
What if you start making copies and giving them to people who were going to buy Toyota camry's?
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Nothing illegal about that.
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Remember, the claim is that the car is an exact duplicate; in other words, it will contain Toyota trademarks on the car. Eventually some who receive the car are going to try and sell it.
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Then we're just back to the same rule. If they try to claim it's a Toyota, then they're going to get into trademark law. Still has nothing to do with theft or copyright.
You can go to many collector car auctions and buy a clone that is virtually identical to the original, including any trademarked badges/design/etc. That happens today all the time. As long as the seller doesn't claim it's an original, then there is no problem.
But this is trademark law, which doesn't have much to do with the original question/analogy.