I can understand the protection against cheap copies etc. (Although what do you do when the "factory originals" are cheap crap?)

Where do we stand doing a "like for like" copy?

i.e Can I rip the stuffed cab art off my party zone - get it copied from the original which is then destroyed?

I thought doing something along these lines is "legal"?

Reason for my interest in all of this:

I am fortunate to work with a "coating technologist" (He used to formulate the paint for Dulux and has worked in screen printing) - if it is a paint or an ink, this guy is the bomb! I started chatting to him about restoring glasses and playfields - he loses me in 10 seconds flat! Starts raving about celluloid cross-linking and surface tension...