Probably for the same reason that people will pay more for originals even if prints or copies are exact replicas and look just as nice. I wonder if people woul

Probably for the same reason that people will pay more for originals even if prints or copies are exact replicas and look just as nice. I wonder if people would pay more for a print of an original artist's painting, or an exact hand-painted reproduction painting? At least the replica is still painted by an expert.