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Alain <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote:
> Trevor G Quayle nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/09 11:10:
> >
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2007/10/05/city-outraged-over-mint-fee-for-one-cent-campai
gn.a
> > spx
> >
> > An interesting little incident up here last year regarding the Canadian Mint and
> > the City of Toronto's use of a penny image in some campaign advertisements, yep
> > the world certainly is crazy...
> >
> > -tgq
> >
> >
> It's absolutely stupid and absurd. Anybody have the right to make and distribute
> a depiction of any denominator of the Canadian money as long as that depiction
> can't be used as "replacement money". You have full right to create any image of
> any coin.
> ===============================================
> For bills:(http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/legislation/repro.html)
> ---------------Quote--------------------------
> Reproducing anything in the likeness of a current bank note is an offence under
> the Criminal Code
> Section 457 of the Criminal Code provides that anyone one who makes, publishes,
> prints, executes, issues, distributes or circulates, including by electronic or
> computer-assisted means, anything in the likeness of a current bank note is
> guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to
> imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and a maximum fine of $2,000.
>
> No one shall be convicted of the above offence if the likeness of the Canadian
> bank note is
>
> 1. printed;
> 2. less than 3/4 or greater than 1 1/2 times the length or width of the bank
> note; and
> 3. in black and white or only one-sided.
> -----------end quote------------------
> The same sould also hold for change.
>
> --
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
The really odd part is that they want them to pay not only for using the image,
but also for using the phrase "one cent"...
-tgq
PS. I'd say that's just my two cents, but I'm afraid I'll recieve a bill from
the Mint for its usage.
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