When I saw him posting these over on another forum, I wondered what he was trying to copyright. The images certainly are not copyrighted by him and he properly credits them back to the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection. but on the other forum, he mentioned that he will be adding more information and compiling it into a catalog. So I think he mistakenly labeled the images as copyright when what he was really intending to copyright his catalog publication.
cjpalermo1964 knows far more than the rest of us concerning copyrights; perhaps he can weight in on declaring copyright on something that you do not really own. Don
He cannot copyright the images as they are not his intellectual property. But he can copyright the text that he includes with the images as well as the compilation of any book, CD or webpage that that he creates.
Wayne Youngblood wrote an interesting article about the stamp images and copyright law that was published in The American Stamp Dealer & Collector magazine a few months ago. It is worth reading.
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