Looking back on the leaked pictures of the concept …

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02-15-2006 | 02:36 AM

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5thgen69camaro

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Re: Looking back on the leaked pictures of the concept …

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Originally Posted by R377

This is what I'm getting at. Aside from the legalities of posting the concept pictures, a number of posters here said the pics shouldn't have been posted because it'll somehow cost GM a lot of money, or because it might make GM change their mind about producing the car. But if the pics were legitimate spy pics (and I know they weren't), would the same reasoning apply? Should websites pull legal pics based on the possibility GM might lose money or reconsider the car? If that line of reasoning holds up in one instance, it should hold up in the other (again, putting the legalities aside for the moment).

I just didn't understand the people trying to defend GM's position based on these arguments.

No. If the photographers took the pics and they own them, then they have the right to do with as they wish provided they did not trespas or obtain the job to get them. If the pics werent even taken by outside photographers, but stolen all together then it was really unethical. It is up to GM to keep their secrets away from the press within reason. If they are hoping fences breaking into buildings ,getting jobs, sliping cameras into GM buildings to take pics that is unethical. Stealing and breaking the confidentiality contracts Im sure they signed assuring GM giving their word they would not let the pictures out them that is unethical.

Now if it were me, and this had been a legal spy shot I had taken, I would have photo shoped it as a best guess the way Hot Rod Mag did to what the finished product would be.

Last edited by 5thgen69camaro; 02-15-2006 at 02:38 AM.