That's an incorrect statement.
What actually happened was Ford stopped Cafepress.com from selling a calendar to BMC. Cafepress's own terms of service state:
NO use of trademarks, names, or logos of companies. For example, you cannot use the name of a company such as Nike, a company logo such as the Nike "swoosh" trademark, or brand name such as Coca Cola, or a modified version of a trademark, (e.g., "Just Did It").
NO pictures or photographs of products (such as toys). Even if you own a product, trademark laws may still prohibit you from selling merchandise that features pictures of it. For example, you cannot take a picture of your Barbie and sell merchandise with that picture.
There's no way that they should have agreed to produce the calendar in the first place. Everyone knows that Ford has become a licensing nazi. Mustang Tuning had to change their name, floor mat companies have been sued and countless other businesses have been hit. The issue was a big stink starting two or three years ago.
This idea that Ford is going after the Black Mustang Club is completely wrong. They're going after a company that was trying to make a profit selling an unlicensed Mustang calendar. If BMC was a non-profit organization like most Mustang clubs are, they could self-produce their own calendar and Ford wouldn't bother them. Since Cafepress is a for-profit company, they have to pay a fee.
