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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 3402137, member: 6986&quot;]I am legal counsel for the International Bank Note Society and am very familiar with the US Code and CFR sections you copied above, as well as the workings of the CBCDG as I have been fielding questions about this for IBNS for years.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing in the US Code or the CFR that requires the manufacturers to employ any kind of software.&nbsp; The scanner manufacturers bear no criminal responsibility for what a user does with their product. They have chosen to comply (partly, anyway) with CBCDG&#039;s guidance to avoid potential civil liability, particularly from the EU.</p><p><br /></p><p>I say partly because not all manufacturers comply and the technology is not employed in all products for some companies that do comply.&nbsp; Both of my HP printers on my home computers will scan all US banknotes.&nbsp; They were purchased in 2012 and 2016 and both use their factory loaded software.&nbsp; Of the two commercial copier/scanners in my office, the Kyocera (2016) will scan all notes but the Xerox (2014) will not scan current notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The US Code and CFR sections you show above are actually an improvement over what the law previously was in the US.&nbsp; The change was somewhere around 2005.&nbsp; Previous law forbid all color copies regardless of size even if they were one sided.&nbsp; If you look at old copies of the SPMC&#039;s Paper Money you will see nothing but black and white images up until that time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Neither the Federal Reserve nor the Secret Service nor any other branch of the US government has been terribly active in pursuing anyone making and using scans of US or foreign notes for their websites or Ebay, etc.&nbsp; The same cannot be said for other countries.&nbsp; The Bank of Canada, Bank of England and the Central Bank of Turkey have been very aggressive in keeping images of circulating notes from being made even for educational sites.&nbsp; I am not aware of any attempt by any authority to prevent the use of images on Ebay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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