Re: pictures of currency and stamps

At 12:04 PM 10/17/95 -0400, David Dailey <David.P.Dailey[_at_]williams.edu> wrote:
>
> I believe it used to be the case that photographing (scanning, etc.)
> US currency used to be strictly outlawed (for obvious reasons).
>
> However, increasingly, I have seen pictures of money appearing in TV
> commercials and even magazine ads... this is not really a copyright
> issue, I know.. but have the rules about this changed? How about other
> countries?

In the US the law has remained unchanged for a long time. Basically you cannot reproduce the US currency (or stamps) unless you enlarge it or reduce it more than some specified percentage.

> Specifically, someone I know wishes to scan some Japanese currency and
> put it on a home page as a jpeg in relatively low-res form.

Knowing the US law won't help much with this. You need to know the Japanese law.

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