So I had a deal/partial sponsoship with Headlight Armor awhile back, and they gave me a discount in exchange for providing them with pics of their product on my car for their site. I just got on ebay to find out someone is using me car for their knock off version of headlight film now! WTF?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevr...spagenameZWDVW

 

Call up the company and tell them that you want some royalty rights or to remove the picture!

 

dam thats crazy man... sue the bitch

 

lawsuit an use the winnings to buy new headlights

 

can you prove its your car..... lol just playing since you have the pics. Call the company that sponsered you.

 

even though it might suck...its legal as its on the internet and anything you post up is fair game...so it would be hard to dispute.

 

I really don't care since I've since taken the tint off anyhow! I was actually looking for the OEM style painted black headlights they have on there now because I just don't want to tear mine apart even know I have two pairs of them! I just found it rather amusing that my car is on ebay.

 

not true as long as he can prove it's his car by taking the same picture with him next to it and then showing the ebay link they'll see it's his car

 

How inconsiderate. Jerks.

 

nahh hommie, she is right, once something is made public like that it is fair game.. especially since it is not being used to defame him..

 

who cares?

 

I had the same issue with extreme dimensions. They were using my car to photoshop in their awful spyder 3 hood. The idiots forgot to chop out the garage door. I talked to an attorney friend of mine and since the pictures are not copyrighted there is virtually nothing you can do worth your while, except email the company telling them that the picture was used and that you will take legal action. That is what I did. However, you would spend more in attorney and court costs then you would actually get. Good luck

 

Like I said, it doesn't hurt my feelings and I'm not getting all butt-hurt about, I just thought it was interesting. Sorry to bother you then!


As a side note, they photoshopped my buddy that was in the driver's seat out first though!

 

what about image copyrights?

 

in that case i have this bomb ass purple cobalt with all kinds of custom stuff in my backyard lol jk

thats crazy... now that u mention it the headrest on that side looks missing

 

hahahahahaha thats awesome, you should be flattered

 

hahah...well thats why originally we watermarked my pics... just because we have a lot of stuff people dont offer for the balt...so for marketing purposes thats why we used them

 

How hard was it to install and were your light's dim?

 

actually your wrong...its ebay and ebays rules trump most everything lol..all he has to do is email ebay and tell them that a vendor is using his pictures and the auction will be pulled. and every time they reload it just email ebay again and keep gettingthe auction shut down...thats way better than suing them...

 

Don't do it! I took mine off so I could see at night time again! They darkened the lights so much at night I had to turn on my fogs just to see! Plus, it's a pain in the ass to get them on without any bubbles.

Anyhow, I just hadn't made my own thread for anything in awhile and when this came up I figured I'd share it. Seriously it's not a big deal to me. I just found it comical more than anything. Imagine logging onto ebay and typing in "Cobalt" to see your car up there. At first I was like who the hell is trying to sell my car on ebay?

 

this is why you water mark and encrypt info into pics

 

I actually have no idea how to do that! Car won't look like that pic anyhow when I get back and really doesn't right now for that matter. Out with the old and in with the new hotness!

 

photoshop foo!

 

I would let Headlight Armor know that these people are stealing their product images of a car they own the rights to. That should settle that!

 

I like them things, too bad they don't come in Yellow.... I'd cop some if they did!