That’s very different if you tell someone “I have this thing, there is only one of this thing, and I have certified that I have made no copies”
Cory has a whole book on this subject. Art and creative works are artifically scarce on purpose to allow them to be used to make money. In this case it’s not the original artists making the money, but the owner of said work. Just like someone reselling a collectable or a rare book or something, we generally want people to be able to do this, because often these rare or limited-edition works initially start with a greater return for the artists.
The thing is, none of that matters. The fact that it is rare matters, and if Shkreli signed a doc that said “I will not destroy the rarity of this work” then subsequently went and destroyed the rarity of the work, that was the value of the work, the genie can’t be put back in the bottle, and he’s going to lose this bigtime.
