Quote - How is it any different from someone taking a picture of the real car and selling the picture when the car company does not make a dime from it either?

The question is what the end user does with the product. Since you don't know what use they might put it to, you never know whether that use will come under scrutiny.

Take stock photography, for instance. Most sites insist that no corporate logos be visible because their customers are businesses who are going to use the photos in advertising, and using someone else's logo or product in your own advertising can potentially imply all sorts of things which will make you liable for infringement.

For the purposes of making art, even if you're going to sell the art, interpretation of the laws has usually been in favor of the artist, though not always.

However, if you make a product to sell to other people who may use that product in their advertising, you open yourself up to a whole new world.

Art and advertising, as I understand it, are not treated as equivalents under US IP laws.

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