Is It Time For Digital Albums?

Just a suggestion for anyone wanting to create both a digital and print album simultaneously. The digital album will be in PDF format.

To create the digital album using AlbumEasy, include the full-colour scanned images of the stamps in the boxes with AlbumEasy set to draw the images actual size:


For the print album, one simple setting can be used to reduce the sizes of all images throughout the album. Ten seconds later:



If you prefer your print albums to have grey images, a single setting can change the whole album to grey:


Or if you prefer blank stamp boxes for the print album, another setting can do this for the whole album in seconds:


Note: the stamps images in this example are not my own stamps.

Clive

A lot of this would seem to fall under "intellectual property rights," predicated on original knowledge, ideation, creation, etc. A stamp image's artist presumably sold or licensed his/her image to the USPS, with delineation of future use and gain. Of course, many of the inspirations for stamp images are derivative - statues, quotes, etc. The USPS reproduced the image and sold it as stamps. While these are government commercial products, the USPS also knows people simply collect the stamps.

I bet there'd be dozens of interesting wrinkles that could make it to the US Supreme Court.

- Do unintentional errors that were intended to be discarded, "waste" coils, etc., belong to the USPS, or anybody?
- What of postage stamps being legal tender?
- If Don creates an art project from stamps, with enough originality, it becomes "his".
- If I create a blank physical stamp album with specific pages for certain stamps in specific arrangements, can't I copyright this?
- If I fill such an album with stamps, does that make it a new oeuvre? How about someone else's blank album that I've bought, and filled?
- Now what if I photograph, scan or o/w digitize this?
- And what about likenesses of stamps, like Elvis, made IRL out of hundreds of stamps acting as "pixels"?

Etc., ad infinitum. Fascinating.