Judge Orders USPS to Pay $3.5 Million for Statue of Liberty Stamp Blunder
Jul 08, 2018, 07:06 PM
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was ordered to pay a Las Vegas sculptor more than $3.5 million last week, after it inadvertently used an image of his Statue of Liberty replica on stamps.
Artist Robert Davidson sued the USPS for copyright infringement five years ago, arguing that "Forever" stamps issued in 2011 bore the likeness not of the original Lady Liberty, but of the recreation Davidson produced for the New York-New York Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.