Comments on: Certificate of Authenticity

By: Immortal

Immortal — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:32:19 +0000

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)

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:46:27 +0000

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.”

By: Immortal

Immortal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:08 +0000

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.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:30:31 +0000

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.

By: Jew

Jew — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:43:09 +0000

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.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:57:52 +0000

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.