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USPS Pays Artist $3.5 million After Committing Copyright Infringement
Sexiness is subjective, but when it comes to the modernized Statue of Liberty that looms over the Las Vegas Strip, there’s no denying she’s a bit more sultry compared to the original 19th-century version. But somehow, the United States Postal Service (USPS) couldn’t tell the difference between the two, and printed the wrong Lady Liberty on billions of stamps in 2010—the one outside of the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Sin City, not the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
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Taking a photo of a statue visible from a public place is copyright infringement now?
Well printing it a billion times is probably the bigger reason.