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Old 11-14-2005, 04:09 PM
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Posted By: Max Weder

I'm wondering exactly what law is being broken.

It is clearly fraud to represent a card as original when the seller knows it is a reprint, but I would expect making a copy relates more to the law of copyright. Given the age of the cards, I'm not sure whether copyright would still exist, or perhaps the images are in the public domain. Perhaps a US copyright lawyer can offer some general comments.

Perhaps Kinkos views slabbed cards differently, and that the entombing company has perhaps some copyrights in the slab.

Edited to add: I agree however with Jim F that some clear explanation would be required from the customer to not assume the worst.

Max



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