How to get a license to produce a scale model?

Question

3D

Good day.
Can you please explain how firms obtain licenses to build scale models of certain auto brands?
Which way do I have to go to get a license?
What requirements should be from my side?
Estimated cost?
Is it true that you can create scale models without a license if the company has collapsed? For example AZLK?

Answer 1

a model is an object of copyright, dance from the one who has these rights, usually it is the manufacturer,
even if the manufacturer disappears (absorbed, bankruptcy), someone inherits his patents and other IP Rights is
another matter, that for old objects, like those the Shermans, for example, are not so easy to understand who to deal with

Answer 2

Is it true that you can create scale models without a license if the company has collapsed? For example AZLK?

no, if there is no legal entity, this does not mean that there are no successors.
The design of a car is usually protected by obtaining a patent for a utility model, and the scale of the model does not play a role here. To obtain the right to use a patent, you need to conclude a license agreement with the patent owner.
You should have requirements only for your product (technical requirements, i.e. what do you want to produce, economic - in what volumes, cost, etc.), you must understand what you want, you must have a ready-made solution, and not invent it in the course of a conversation with the copyright holder ... the list of your questions should tend to 1 - cost. I’m most interested in the cost ... how do you find out, write)))