Image Copyrights - My personal car used in a DVD and sold on Amazon.?

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I found a DVD movie being sold on Amazon that has been release Aug 2009 and it has my replica car I personal made after a car from a Universal Studious TV car, featured in it. This footage was obtain from a convention back in Oct 1997 at a local college in Florida. I sign no legal documents at that time, and it was pretty informal. The promoter of the event had Universal Studies bring a car they own to this even too. The also misrepresented my car in this new 2009 video, and called it an original Universal car, which mine is only a replica. What right to I have in this matter? I do not recognize ant of the writers that are attached to this new 2009 DVD. I looked up the writer, and he writes many Custom Car books and the are sold in all the big name book stores. So, this is not some small buy, this is a full blown writer.
Also, the are depicting the car as the "original" as stated in the Amazon listing.
Yes, it was public, but the whole basis of the video is my car, and they are calling it the original and and and selling the DVD as such.
 
Since you took the car to the convention you have little or no expectation of privacy

Also since the car is a "replica" you don't really have a valid copyright claim; your car is a "derivate work" and the copyright belongs to the designer of the original car.

Now if your real license plate number is shown in that video then you have a case.
 
You took your car to a public event. As such, you have no rights to any photos or video taken at the event. You have no expectation of privacy, and since you admit that your car is merely a replica of someone else's design, you have no rights to anything.
 
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