{"id":33789,"date":"2018-07-06T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33789"},"modified":"2018-07-06T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:57:17","slug":"this-is-just-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33789","title":{"rendered":"This Is Just Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/07\/06\/u-s-post-office-to-pay-3-5m-for-using-wrong-statue-liberty-on-stamp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> story posted yesterday, the U.S. Post Office has to pay $3.5 million dollars to Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson for mistakenly featuring Las Vegas\u2019 Statue of Liberty replica on a \u201cforever\u201d stamp instead of the original New York Statue.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Postal Service attorneys argued Davidson&#8217;s design was too similar for him to claim copyright.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Federal Judge Eric Bruggink sided with Davidson, agreeing that his work was an original design with a more \u201cmodern,\u201d \u201cfeminine\u201d and contemporary face.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Bruggink ordered the Postal Service to pay $3.5 million to the artist, which is a slice of the $70 million the service made in profit from the forever stamp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Davidson originally earned $233,000, after manufacturing costs, for his casino-based Lady Liberty creation, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/05\/arts\/statue-of-liberty-stamp-copyright-las-vegas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Has anyone sought to sue Mr. Davidson for copying the Statue of Liberty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Fox News story posted yesterday, the U.S. Post Office has to pay $3.5 million dollars to Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson for mistakenly featuring Las Vegas\u2019 Statue of Liberty replica on a \u201cforever\u201d stamp instead of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2523,2825,11754],"class_list":["post-33789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fox-news","tag-post-office","tag-statue-of-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33790,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33789\/revisions\/33790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}