Originally Posted by
cudak888
Technically, it isn't legal to make them for profit, but not one-offs for your own use.
Regardless, nobody has gone after Cyclemondo, HLloyd's, or Velocals - nobody in the legal departments of whoever might own the trademarks have put a stop to it, thank god. Lord knows the
PR department would have an earful the next morning from irate C&V'ers demanding accurate decals directly from the present trademark holder.
-Kurt
Exactly right.
In the real world a company would only be interested in going after you if selling the reproductions was interfering with their profits in some way...either by causing branding problems or undercutting their sale of their own decals. Since none of these companies sells their decals, there is no real motive for them to be interested. Actually I think it's quite the contrary...beautiful restorations with their branding adds to their value and makes it look like their current bikes might have classic status some day too...and stand up to the test of time.
If a company were printing off Trek logos and applying them to old Huffys...Trek might be interested. If the people buying Trek logos were mostly applying them to old Huffys, they might be interested. They aren't going to have any reason to object to people restoring their Treks with Trek logos. Actually I'd think they'd encourage it.