Tangentially related: does anyone here happen to know if celebrities use 2 different signatures (one for fans, one for signing official documents)? Or do they give away their actual signature every time?
If the latter, I'm really wondering how that is not widely abused. Sure, it's illegal (as remarked above). But for celebrities that give out massive amounts of fan signatures, you'd think one of them would eventually be abused.
I'm not really a celebrity, but I have given a couple of autographs (when I published a typography magazine). I made a conscious decision to not use my regular signature and instead use a calligraphic logotype instead. I have a version of that as the favicon of my writing website.
If the latter, I'm really wondering how that is not widely abused. Sure, it's illegal (as remarked above). But for celebrities that give out massive amounts of fan signatures, you'd think one of them would eventually be abused.