Making Your Own Window Cards

Hello,

I was chatting with a friend recently and we were discussing window cards that have been hard to find. I told him about Triton gallery and he said that the prices were too high for his taste (Personally I find them quite reasonable and the quality is amazing). Anyway, he said that he wanted to try making his own by taking an image of the poster online and making one in one of those custom poster websites because he found it to be way cheaper. I told him that this was illegal because he was taking property that wasn't his (the image of the original poster) and having it printed. Was I wrong in telling him that it was illegal? I was under the impression that it was because it was stealing but I wasn't really sure. Any insight into this matter would be greatly appreciated.

That's exactly what I told him but he said the same thing-that nobody is going to see it but him and he doesn't plan on doing anything with it besides having it in a personal collection. But the fact of the matter is that it is still illegal no matter what his plans for it are.

What do you think the odds of him getting caught doing it are? Realistically?

No one seems to care when those Times Square street vendors sell framed colored prints of Broadway show art. Many of them are just reproductions of the playbill cover, but still.

Updated On: 5/6/15 at 11:41 PM

He did try ebay, but he could not find the one he was looking for. The only ones they had were signed and cost 100+ dollars.

What show?

It would definitely be cool. For some reason the poster he was looking for was prematurely discontinued so it has been absolutely impossible to find. Realistically how bad do you think the overall quality would be?

Well Once is on Triton for a discounted price ($45 instead of $75), and I'd say that that's only a few more dollars than the price to print your own 14 by 22 window card, plus the dramatic increase in quality.