Benhamou, Françoise; Ginsburgh, Victor - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 253-283). 2006
In his essay on imitation in the arts, Adam Smith considers that the exact copy of an artwork always deserves less merit than the original. But the hierarchy between copies and originals has changed over time. So has the perception of copies by lawyers, philosophers, art historians and curators....
