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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 2830711, member: 21705&quot;]I&#039;m a little less than particular about using a sellers image when I purchase a coin from them. I&#039;d never sell the image, but I would use it if I chose to sell the coin, since my own images are usually bad. So far I haven&#039;t sold anything myself anyway, so the situation is purely hypothetical.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a fair use doctrine concerning the use of publicly available material, even copy written material, for certain projects. The basic restriction being that it cannot harm the economic opportunity of the person holding the material by being sold or using too much of it replacing demand for it, thus the excerpts from copy written material often used in classrooms or news stories.</p><p>I often use images from the internet to show die state information and variety identification markers. There has to be some fair use or the hobby would die.</p><p><br /></p><p>All intellectual property should have a reasonable expiration date. Imagine if the first fire starter (through descendants) still had intellectual rights and sued anybody starting a fire? At some point, it has to enter public domain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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