PSA Copyright question

[jrenaut]

I would be careful, however. If you ask permission and are denied, you're pretty much out of luck. If you don't ask and PSA decides to sue, you'll likely have to go to court even though drc is right and it's likely fair use. Since I've seen so many images of PSA slabs online and never heard of them filing a takedown claim, I would guess that you're in the clear. But I'm not a lawyer, and even if I was, I wouldn't tell you this as a lawyer.

Also good to know - the only thing covered by copyright on the front of the slab is the grade and possibly the id #. You can't copyright facts, but they will certainly argue (correctly, I think) that the grade is an opinion (a "creative work") and therefore covered. The id # I don't think qualifies, but I would not want to be the lawyer arguing that one.