Take one:
me and G USED to go to a lot of Nascar races and take pics. We sold a few and Nascar found out about it and threatened a lawsuit. They said that the images were their property. I got a cease order and since they had more money than we did, we quit selling them. I had the arguement that since I took the pics they were my copyrighted images. They saw it different. I still say that a pic that someone takes is their property.

Take two:
Just because something is on the net doesn't mean it would be fair game. BUT, if he didn't want the pics copied he could put into the program to block people from right clicking his images. Ebay thinks like this.... If you copy/paste someone's auction image and they find out, Ebay can suspend your acct for jpeg theft.

So the answer would be, I have no idea. If he's that pissed, he must have something to hide...........