Bill Henry-
Brussel Sprout Connoisseur
A customer who just returned from a Carnival Cruise brought in a bunch of “look at me I was here” souvenir photos from her trip.
Attached to the back of each of the photos is a 1-1/2” square patch which she was told is a “copy protection” device to prohibit reproducing the photos. It looks and feels and is about the same thickness of a square of carpet tape with the release paper still on it. Embedded in the middle of the square is clearly something – the square is white, but opaque, so I cannot make it out.
I would like to remove the patch so that I can dry mount the photo, but am very reluctant to do so especially in light of the claim that it is some kind of copy protection thingie. My paranoia makes me think it may be a chemical which, if the square is broken or torn, may do something to the emulsion.
Or, maybe, it is an embedded microchip which does something if exposed to the the bright light of a scanner.
I am really puzzled. Has anyone seen anything like this and, if so, how does it work?
Attached to the back of each of the photos is a 1-1/2” square patch which she was told is a “copy protection” device to prohibit reproducing the photos. It looks and feels and is about the same thickness of a square of carpet tape with the release paper still on it. Embedded in the middle of the square is clearly something – the square is white, but opaque, so I cannot make it out.
I would like to remove the patch so that I can dry mount the photo, but am very reluctant to do so especially in light of the claim that it is some kind of copy protection thingie. My paranoia makes me think it may be a chemical which, if the square is broken or torn, may do something to the emulsion.
Or, maybe, it is an embedded microchip which does something if exposed to the the bright light of a scanner.
I am really puzzled. Has anyone seen anything like this and, if so, how does it work?