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by hjnilsson 1921 days ago
There is nothing stopping you from making a new lithography series of Picasso’s sketches, but they won’t be worth nearly the same as the originals.

The utility provided by the NFTs is in actually owning the “original”, not that it is not reproducible.

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But the lack of reproducability is what makes Picassos's sketches be worth more than 0, or not? I can get a copy of those sketches for a few bucks as a high quality print, but not the original. In the NFT case, there is no original.
It reminds me of that story where someone got in trouble for issuing his own currency at school.