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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the government cannot ban use. of;photographs or illustrations</br></br>By a 5-to-4 vote, the court upheld key provisions of a 120-year-old anticounterfeiting law that bans all color reproductions of currency and specifies permissible sizes for the reproductions.</br></br>The court rejected arguments by Time Inc. that the law should be invalidated as an unconstitutional limitation of free expression.</br></br>The publishing company on various occasions has used replicas of currency in its magazines to illustrate articles.</br></br>Justice Byron R. White, writing for the court, said, ÛÏCompliance with the color and size requirements does not prevent Time from expressing any view on any subject or from using illustrations of currency in expressing those views.Û