[candyman]

So what if I draw a the Mona Lisa and sell it?

What if I draw some other painting but an obscure artist hanging in the same museum and sell that?

What if I attribute the work as in “My drawing of the Mona Lisa” or “My drawing of this picture I saw by <painter>”

What if my drawings look very different than the original? Does that matter?

[ajb]

The Mona Lisa was painted more than 500 years ago. Da Vinci died more than 500 years ago. It's out of copyright.

[rwmj]

Which the cartoon originals and the paintings would be if there was any fairness in the copyright system ...

[andsoitis]

People have made copies and reinterpretations of the Mona Lisa since the 16th century. Not sure what your point is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_replicas_and_reinter...

[singpolyma3]

I guess it depends what you are asking.

In the eyes of international copyright law, attribution times not matter at all. Looking different or being transformative does not matter at all.

These things may matter to some people, being transformative in some ways may matter to some local laws, and the Mona Lisa being too old to be under copyright matters a lot.

[Towaway69]

If you make a copy it would be called a forgery but only if you attempt to sell the copy.

[alpos]

Forgery occurs when someone makes a copy of an original work and tries to sell it as if it were the original or as if it were a variant created by the original artist.

You can sell a copy of anything not covered by copyrights. You just can't lie to people about what you are selling.

[goto11]

Only if you claim it is an original by another artist.