Hmmm, the first listing at ebay was stopped (
see here)....
....but now it get's even better.
Instead of $5 it was listed again by the same seller for $6.99..... (
see here) At the time I am writing this this auction is still online...
I checked other photos and there are several photos that appeared in "Luftwaffe in Focus" and "Götterdämmerung". I doubt that the seller has the "originals" as he states in his auctions (but I don't claim the opposite to be true since I don't know it. I am just expressing my opinion):
"This was reproduced from an original in my collection."
And to say that he meant "original copies" with "original" is in my opinion a bad excuse and a deception of potential buyers. Or has anyone of you ever seen a "fake copy"? What is the difference between an "original copy" and a "fake copy"??
To show photos for historical purposes is something completely different than selling copies for profit. While I admit that the LWCollectibles website showed scans taken from ebay auctions two years ago the purpose was to share historical knowledge and not to sell these photos or to make profit from it. LWCollectibles also never published photos coming directly from families without asking for permission.
The rightful owner of the Fw 190 photo (Zack) does not have anything against sharing the photos with historians who can help to find out more about its history therefore he shared the photos online. But he has something against other people trying to make profit with his own photos which I can perfectly understand. No matter what is legal according to the copyright law and what is not, I find this a sad and regretable thing to take other people's family photos and offer them for profit.
Regards
Roger