Certificate of Authenticity
Nov-5-2007
While Ken, Hooper, Jeremy, Marybeth and I were at Taco Bell last night we came up with a brilliant idea. We should Sell Certificates of Authenticity. We could advertise and have people submit a form telling us what they want to certify and we could give them a Certificate of Authenticity. The only question was whether or not this would be legal, since it is possible that people would want things certified as something they really weren’t.
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I’ve heard of some laws against altering something to give it a false value. I think the authorities frown on such practices.
If the company that produced these was clearly making a parody product with no real value other than humor it could work. Some really funny Certificates could be made that way.
interesting that ken brings this up… could you make a certified fake certificate? like, make a certificate of authenticity saying that a certain piece of software was certified illegal.
You could make a Certificate saying anything you want it to say. Even then it’s just a piece of paper that says whatever it is you want it to say.
You know for a techy person you don’t update very often…
Oh and if you were to make a certificate you wouldn’t be altering the thing itself to give it a false value unless you considered the paper itself to be that which had value. However, it would seem like that would fall under false advertising.
Actually that is exactly the argument I heard. It was giving a false value to the paper.
But, like I said, you could make sure it’s marked as a parody, or made by “Such and Such Certificate Company”. The slogan being something like, “Such and Such, we’ll certify anything.”
But if you wrote a poem and put it on paper that would add value… putting words on a paper itself isn’t what is adding value to the paper it’s putting that paper with the object… which the company wouldn’t do… (believe me I don’t really think that this would be an intelligent or legal thing to do… just saying)
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