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Old 08-15-2017, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by judsonhamlin View Post
I will post this example from the New Jersey Criminal Code - a fourth degree crime is punishable by up to 18 moths in State prison, even if it rarely is.

NJSA 2C:21-2 Criminal Simulation. A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if, with purpose to defraud anyone or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, he makes, alters or utters any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, source, or authorship which it does not possess.

No mention of the existence of a copyright as an element of the offense.

Anyone in NJ buy any of these?
What does it mean to utter an object????
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