Federal laws regulating photography are intended to prevent counterfeiting and fraud and are located generally in Title 18 of the United States Code.

Designated government officials are charged with safeguarding the nation's currency. It is the belief of the United States Secret Service that granting permission to photograph and reproduce pictures of money, in color, seriously weakens the safeguards designed to protect our currency.

DEFINITIONS:

Brevity :

1. Poetry:(a) A complete poem if less than 250 words and if printed on not more than two pages, or (b) from a longer poem, and an excerpt of not more than 250 words.

2. Prose: (a) Either a complete article, story, essay of less than 2,500 words, or (b) an excerpt from any prose work of not more than 1,000 words or 10% of the work, whichever is less, but in any event a minimum of 500 words.

Each of the numerical limits stated in 1 and 2 above may be expanded to permit the completion of an unfinished line of a poem or of an unfinished prose paragraph.

3. Illustration: One chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture per book or per periodical issue.

4. Special works: Certain works in poetry, prose, or in poetic prose that often combine language with illustrations and which are intended sometimes for children and at other times for a more general audience that fall short of 2,500 words in their entirety. Paragraph 2 above notwithstanding such special works may not be reproduced in their entirety; however, an excerpt comprising not more than two of the published pages of such special work and containing not more than 10% of the words found in the text thereof, may be reproduced.

Spontaneity:

1. The copying of the material is for only one course in the school in which the copies are made.

2. Not more than one short poem, article, story, essay or two excerpts may be copied from the same author, nor more than three from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term.

3. There shall not be more than nine instances of such multiple copying for one course during one class term.

The limitations stated in 2 and 3 above shall not apply to current news periodicals and newspapers and current news sections of other periodicals.

As a Navy Photographer's Mate, you may be asked to copy United States and foreign financial certificates, such as obligations and securities. These may be needed for anything from the station newspaper to criminal investigations.

Provided below is information and conditions under which you are permitted to make copies of United States and foreign obligations and securities.