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Originally Posted by Mitchelkitman
The argument (IMHO, and I am not a lawyer) should be based on whether the manufacturer (be it F or whoever) has lost revenue in some way - I venture to say that most (not all) replicas or homages cause no financial or other damage to the original manufacturer at all - more so when the model in question has not been made for many years.
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I can see your point about lost revenue and I would have thought that the manufacturers legal teams would have considered this approach. However they did not base their legal action on this proposition and we can only wonder if they thought that they had a better chance of winning using the "work of art" claim.
We'll probably never know!