[mushysteven]

Quite sure this won't change your mind:

> Individually owned, but free to share and use by anyone. When it’s freely shared and used it’s not detracting value from the original, it’s adding value. The Mona Lisa is an exceptionally valuable artwork that lives in the public domain, it is individually ownable yet publicly available for reuse. Mona Lisa Instagram posts, poster prints, remixes, reuses all do not detract value from the original, they add value to it.

Source: https://cryptomedia.wtf/

[forgotmyoldname]

It didn't. The Mona Lisa was a work specially commissioned by a family.

The modern version of that is someone paying an artist to commission a unique work. What changed? Nothing. The Mona Lisa was copied, and digital works can be copied. But nobody else is getting the custom ordered work that you paid for. Only you got your dream painting--everyone else just copied or downloaded a nice looking painting.

[ethanbond]

Mona Lisa is on the weak end of great pieces, but by and large, a jpg of a great piece it is nothing like seeing the real thing in person. Totally different experience.