<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6002.18124" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Patty-</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Buying something (a book, a card, a letter) doesn't convey copyright. It makes no difference whether the person purchases the card with regard to it being or not being under copyright. The person might own the copy of the book, letter, card, and can buy and sell that copy--but that has nothing to do with copyright.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/25/2009 6:28:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, pmcgr@allstream.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I would suggest that if the card is available on ebay and is of genealogical <BR>interest to someone, rather than trying to copy the image (which often has <BR>that annoying camera watermark in the lower right corner), just buy the card <BR>if it is not overly expensive.<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>