Fascinating indeed. Only the legal profession can make a distinction of having a pile of Raleigh catalogues on a rack in a bike shop that anyone can walk in and take. And trash or keep. Maybe even read. But it's an "infringement" to scan a page from one and post on the web?
Balderdash.
As for folks "owning" their eBay photos. Sure why not. They sold the stuff but still own the photos? Wow. Except I don't see them adding a "tm" after Campagnolo. Or Raleigh. They are clearly profiting from a brand name that is not theirs without permission. Or even acknowledgement.
Twaddle.
Of course Brett is right. Most cycle companies like Raleigh have more lawyers wasting their time and peoples money on this kind of trivia than they have workers building their bikes. Of course they are built in China and Viet-Nam. I wonder if the legal staff resides, too, in DaNang?
So I don't know if folks like Mark Bulgier should start or stop "justifying" to himself or others for putting up 30 plus year old catalogues so people can learn what the companies don't care about anymore. What I do know is that if people have legal issues with this stuff, they need to 1) get out and ride their bikes more often and 2) have Mark block his site to their access to save them from participating in a clearly illicit and damaging activity.
Peter Kohler (reg. trademark, patent pending) Washington DC USA