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It is illegal to copy such documents for unlawful purposes or uses, fraud, etc. but apparently legal otherwise.

Given the ubiquity of copy devices, it is hard to imagine the purpose or justification of a flat prohibition.

It isn't completely out of the realm of possibility or imagination that the government will ask or demand copies of documents that are declared illegal to copy.

Now, some report situations that require copies of your amateur radio license, but the FCC no longer provides even originals. Your license, they say, is the data blip in the government computer!