Mr. President Covers Up On eBay

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Nov 20th 2008 at 8:02AM

The election of Barack Obama has given the newspaper industry a bit of a boost. Papers in major cities sold briskly on November 5. One of the papers in Obama's home town, The Chicago Sun-Times is particularly proud of their cover from that day. Not only did it sell 700,000 copies making it the paper's best -selling issue in their 60-year history but Oprah held up a copy of the Sun-Times on her show and said it was the best cover worldwide. Now The Sun-Times is offering 44 limited edition prints of the cover on eBay as a limited edition high-gloss giclee print. The high-gloss print is hand-made by Printmakers Chicago and signed for authenticity. The pieces will be parceled out from now until December 9 with numbers 2-15 available now. Bidding starts at $350.

Shrewd eBay sellers are also selling a variety of papers from that day and from various other moments on the campaign trial for exorbitant mark-ups.

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Gary Arseneau Nov 21st 2008 11:11AM

Under U.S. Copyright Law 101A, for a work of viual art to be considered limited it must be "signed and numbered by the author."

Isn't this newspaper selling reproductions?

Under Illinios' Chapter 815, if you sell a reproduction for $60 or more, it must be disclosed as a reproduction. Failure to do so may include but not limited to refund, interest, treble damages and monetary fines.

Additionally, the statute states ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Rhetorically speaking, is the Chicago-Sun-Times located in Illinois?

Gary Arseneau
artist, creator of original lithographs & scholar
Fernandina Beach, FL

Gary Arseneau Nov 21st 2008 4:01PM

Under U.S. Copyright Law 101A, for a work of visual art to be considered limited it must be "signed and numbered by the author."

Isn't this newspaper selling reproductions?

Under Illinios' Chapter 815, if you sell a reproduction for $60 or more, it must be disclosed as a reproduction. Failure to do so may include but not limited to refund, interest, treble damages and monetary fines.

Additionally, the statute states ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Rhetorically speaking, is the Chicago-Sun-Times located in Illinois?

Gary Arseneau
artist, creator of original lithographs & scholar
Fernandina Beach, FL