Reddit mentions of Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa Cool Wall Decor Art Print Poster 24x36

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Ok, speaking as a someone who works in manufacturing, I don't think this will really break things all told.

Lets look at what traditional paper printers did to copyright. Say you want some art to put on your wall. Lets Say The Mona Lisa Now you can go to amazon and pick one up for 5$ (Boy, did I pick the wrong painting for this example, oh well.)

Or you could just take that image, throw it up in MS paint, and do the job yourself for a few pennies worth of paper and ink. Or take it to Kinko's and have them do it for a couple bucks if you want the full size.

This is my same view on 3d printing. Yes, you could buy a desktop model, and print whatever your heart desires, to the skill you might have (Calibration and printing issues are a thing. My local makerspace had no end of trouble with their makerbot) that the work envelope would allow. Now, yes places like shapeways would have to worry about the leaglease of it, but I have never heard of a print shop turn away something because you couldn't prove you had ownership of the image.

Oh, and his example about airplane replacement parts? Yea, that entire scenario is completely against the current FAA Regulations. The sourcing requirements for Aerospace parts are ridiculous.

Anyways, my view is as such. Currently in manufacturing, if you need something made in your city, there are a multiude of shops where you can get it done. As long as you have a print, people will probably make it for you (Assuming it is not a stolen print from a regular client. You would probally get blown in for that) With 3d printing, You have the models on Thingiverse (Unless you roll your own) and a place like shapeways that makes them. As it stands, there are currently 2 points of failures for the major supply chain here. Now, imagine a thingiverse competitor with the ethos of the pirate bay? If you can get the models anywhere, all you need to do is find a place to print them for you. And hey look, here is a site that will point you in the correct direction

tl;dr Yes, copyright might be a thing for the big national printing houses. I don't think it will actually do anything to stop smaller one off pieces. If you are going to do grey market stuff, don't advertise it or get to big.

I can get a poster of the Mona Lisa for very little though.

>Oh, I'm sorry, since when?

Since the beginning.

Again, look at the graph. Pre-1970's, the line for worker compensation went up along with the line for productivity. Higher productivity? Higher pay!!

It's only AFTER that point that the lines diverge- productivity kept going up, while compensation levelled out.

>This thought experiment is two employees with different levels of production (you might call that level of production their productivity).

Even if this were the case we were discussing, you left out a vital piece of information: the machine. 'B' is ONLY more productive because of the machine. The machine that someone else invented, the machine that someone else built, the machine the company paid for.

We are not comparing (productivity of A) to (productivity of B). We are comparing (productivity of A) to (productivity of B with the machine). To see if the compensation is fair between them, we need to remove the productivity boost the machine provides.

>So you're telling me that you, the consumer of their labors, will pay more money for fewer widgets? Even though you could pay less money for more widgets?

Quantity is not always better.

Mona Lisa: $830 million dollars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings#Background )

Mona Lisa poster: $9.94 ( https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-America-Leonardo-DaVinci-Mona-36-Inch/dp/B000NVYYOY )

>B's button pushing is ten times as valuable as A's hand-crafting.

Any idiot can push a button. Hell, you can train a monkey to do it. You are saying that a trained monkey is more valuable than a master craftsman.

>One minute of B's production time is equivalent to ten minutes of production time for A.

NO. Again, you are forgetting the machine.

One minute of B's time PLUS THE MACHINE is equivalent to ten minutes of production time for A. It is NOT B who is responsible for the higher production- it is the machine. Why should B get paid more, when it is the machine that is responsible for the higher production?

Some paintings/art have historical and cultural significance. It may be that the painting was by one of the most famous/well-respective artists from a country or region, it may be that the painting is a historical artefact from an era of cultural importance.


These sorts of things add to the price of a painting as it is 'valued' more highly by people and there may be competing private collectors/public collectors (e.g. art galleries/museums) all willing to pay more.


Take the Mona Lisa. It's just a portrait, it's a portrait that probably 90% of people have seen already yet if you go to the Louvre in Paris it is almost never quiet in the room - there are people queuing to go look at it in person...sample photo. Why? What difference is it vs. a poster-print of it like this which you can get for under $5 with shipping? To the Louvre having it in their museum brings customers in the door - they would happily pay millions for it because without it they might lose 100s of thousands of customers a year to a rival museum.