What about Money and banknotes pictures, is the images violates U.S. Federal law because it can be reproduced and possible used for illict purposes because of its high quality ?
No it doesn’t because these images don’t have the watermark, which all sensible businesspeople would check for, to make it look like an official bill. also putting a label such as “sample” or “specimen” isn’t a requirement. Important 3/4 & 1-1/2 U.S. Secret Service money illustration rules : As listed by the United States Secret Service at money illustrations, the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR 411), permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided: The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated; The illustration is one-sided; and All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted o