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US Postal Service fined for putting wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp

"Trump’s Pox Americana"

By Amanda Svachula
6 July 2018 — 2:42pm

In a 2010 stamp design, the US Postal Service mistook a Las Vegas-based replica for the real Statue of Liberty. Now a federal
court has ruled that the post office must pay the replica's sculptor $US3.5 million ($4.7 million) for violating his copyright.

The statue by artist Robert Davidson sits at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas, thousands of miles away from the mint-green figure in New York Harbor.

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The New York New York resort on the Las Vegas Strip: The US Postal Service mistakenly used an image of the casino's Statue of Liberty replica on a stamp.

Photo: AP

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/us-postal-service-fined-for-putting-wrong-statue-of-liberty-on-a-stamp-20180706-p4zptz.html

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Statue of Liberty climber invokes Michelle Obama: 'I went as high as I could'

By Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/05/18 09:05 PM EDT

Statue of Liberty climber invokes Michelle Obama: 'I went as high as I could'


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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/395741-statue-of-liberty-climber-invokes-michelle-obama-i-went-as-high