[Upd-discuss] The Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006

[James Davis]

This piece of legislation looks "interesting" and I'd never heard of it
before. I wonder what everyone on the list thinks of it.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/draft/20063820.htm

It creates a resale royalties right for artists whereby the artist is
paid royalties on resales of his work beyond his initial sale. That is,
if I sold a painting to Alice who later sold my photograph to Bob, I'd
be due a percentage of the money Alice received from Bob even though I'd
already sold her the entire work.

It seems slightly odd and unnatural to me especially if we substitute
painting with photograph and I could create multiple, near identical
copies of my work with little effort.

James

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