Artists’ Rights Society Pushes for Right of Resale in the U.S.

August 4th, 2011 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

Fresh on the heels of Frank Stella’s plight for resale rights, the Artists’ Rights Society, the main copyright and licensing collecting agency in the US, is pushing for legislation that would see droit de suite, or artists’ resale rights, become federal law.

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  1. MarcW:

    August 5th, 2011 at 8:14 am

    This.

    Is.

    Insane.

    If I resell my car, does Ford get a royalty? Does the guy who installed the windshield wipers?

    If I resell my house, should the previous owners, who did fix the place up nice and doubtless contributed to the price I will get, get a piece of the action?

    If I buy a share of stock, and the company does well and I resell it for a large gain, should the woman who sold it to me be entitled to a chunk?

    That last one is closest to the real problem here: artists have their knickers in a twist over the ridiculous gobs of cash morons are laying down for their crap after critics and academics convince said morons that said crap is worth its weight in interferon. (Or, to be charitable, the same could be said for non-crap art.) They want a piece. Since they were too dumb to make a bargain in good faith that entitled them to what they want, they are now coming along behind and demanding that Big Brother rescue them and punish the Evil Rich Guys who had the temerity to make money off something they touched twenty years ago and sold for what they considered an acceptable price. Pah. A pox on them.

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    August 24th, 2011 at 3:00 am

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