Stamp-Size Mistake Costs Postal Service $3.5 Million

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July 6th, 2018

Robert Davidson finished his Las Vegas statue of Lady Liberty in 1996. A federal judge ruled last week that Davidson’s replica was different enough from the original statue to hold a copyright.

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For years, a U.S. Postal Service stamp mistakenly bore the image of a Lady Liberty replica.

That statue welcomes visitors to the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and between 2010 and 2014, it earned the Postal Service over $70 million in profits.

Last week, Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson was awarded $3.5 million from the Postal Service in a lawsuit.

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