Stamp copyright

Is the art or picture on a stamp copyrighted??

That is, if I blew up, photographed, or reproduced, the lovely enlarged
image and sold it would I be infringing anything??

tt

A.J Todd wrote:
Is the art or picture on a stamp copyrighted??

That is, if I blew up, photographed, or reproduced, the lovely enlarged
image and sold it would I be infringing anything??

tt

AJ:

For very old stamps the copyright may have expired.
However, for modern stamps, that is a different story.
NB: This also applies to personalized stamps.
Blair

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All U.S. postage stamps and other postage items that were released
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I am sure most modern postal administrations have similar copyrights.

B

They are the old, nice, commonwealth ones before bloody labels and they
look great at A4/letter size but I'll just ehjoy them myself!
thanks.

tt

"A.J Todd" wrote in message
...
Is the art or picture on a stamp copyrighted??

That is, if I blew up, photographed, or reproduced, the lovely enlarged
image and sold it would I be infringing anything??

tt

We had here several discussions concerning this complex subject. Certain
participants were even victims of harassment, and they got some advice from
specialists and amateurs. A search made through Google Groups would reveal,
I'm sure, a lot of interesting and sometimes unexpected aspects of this
theme.

--
Victor Manta

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:11:31 +0200, "Victor Manta"
wrote:

"A.J Todd" wrote in message
...
Is the art or picture on a stamp copyrighted??

That is, if I blew up, photographed, or reproduced, the lovely enlarged
image and sold it would I be infringing anything??

tt

We had here several discussions concerning this complex subject. Certain
participants were even victims of harassment, and they got some advice from
specialists and amateurs. A search made through Google Groups would reveal,
I'm sure, a lot of interesting and sometimes unexpected aspects of this
theme.

I was musing on this and wondered how, if pictures of stamps are an infringement
of copyright (in the was that a picture of a Rolls Royce isn't), then how on
earth do Stanley Gibbons et al manage to get clearance from all of the hundreds
of postal authorities who own the copyright to all the images they publish?

Arthur wrote:

I was musing on this and wondered how, if pictures of stamps are an infringement
of copyright (in the was that a picture of a Rolls Royce isn't), then how on
earth do Stanley Gibbons et al manage to get clearance from all of the hundreds
of postal authorities who own the copyright to all the images they publish?

They get permission perhaps. As they almost always want confirmation
from the postal authorities that the stamp is genuinely issued they
will be on contact. [And if you think this is unlikely, consider that
many territories are represented by the Crown Agents or other agencies,
which reduces the number. The cat editor told me once that they had
great difficulty in getting any info at all from Saudi Arabia and
couldn't say when those pages would be updated. I think 1 stamp was
added between 3 annual editions of SOTW.

Anyway, back to copyright - see www.royalmail.com/ip

Ian Billings
Norvic Philatelics