retailers. or some shit.
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These practices vary extensively from business segment to business segment, and even brand to brand.
For instance, it's very common in the world of fashion for a store to photograph the clothes on models, and use those in their ads/catalogs. Look at a Saks catalog, or a Neiman Marcus, and you'll see what I mean.
But, in the world of music instruments, many brands prohibit retailers from advertising using their products in ads. For instance, Gibson will not allow retailers to photograph the guitars they have in stock and use them in ads.
In automobiles, most images used by dealers are gotten directly from the manufacturer, or from some larger association of dealers.
So, these issues are not controlled so much by copyright as they are by the dealership agreements and contracts retailers enter into with the various brands they carry.
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