I can understand copyright law not letting somebody take another person's work and commercially using it and support that. Otherwise, every big company with strong distribution channels would be stealing every original work they can.

The laws get weirder when it comes to protecting commercial ventures. It's reasonable to protect trademarks to ensure that a ripoff company doesn't try to use the better company's name to sell an inferior knockoff product. When it comes to a 3D representation of a 60-year old vehicle, things begin to get hairier, but I suppose that the owning company deserves the right to make that call.

The strangest trademarks are those for buildings where a photo taken of a trademarked building cannot be published without the owner's permission. That one boggles my mind. I can imagine a day when chips will be in everybody's heads and everything a person looks at will ring up a bill.