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Where are you wrong?
Throughout.
Topps not only sells their old images as collectibles, but they sell everything from retro card sets to wall art to prints online. It's not exactly a profit maker that rivals each year's primary card series - but they're making money off of prints of old Carlton Fisk negatives.
Closer to home, I've seen images I've posted here, with and without watermarks, later reposted here as autographed photos within weeks.
More encouragingly I've seen these watermarked photos reposted here within weeks as really nicely done "cards that never were" - and the watermarks provide a kind of counterintuitive authenticity to the effort.
As to copyrights, argue whatever you want about how it should be. The way it is, creators of content have copyrights and often have lawyers and if you want to use the stuff that comes with the former in a way that annoys the latter, you should be prepared to see whole pages of this thread erased.
Or you can just skip the posts you're not interested in, and not assume that your opinion is a universal.
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