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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1209322, member: 24274&quot;]Bobbeth, Commemorative Panels are a curious hybrid. These were issued by the US Postal Service beginning in 1972 to promote their commemorative stamps. But the panels themselves were printed (initially) by the American Bank Note Co. using intaglio vignettes to highlight each stamp&#039;s theme. You can learn more on this thread: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t160644/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t160644/">http://www.cointalk.com/t160644/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>SM, you&#039;re right -- the USPS could not actually copyright the illustrations on the panels, since it didn&#039;t own them. The truth is, most of these vignettes are now in the public domain. So I think the USPS copyright really only applies to the text on the panels. It&#039;s a very interesting legal quandry. Some vignettes are new enough that copyrights do still apply -- and those are often imprinted in microlettering with the copyright of the bank note company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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