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I have simply stopped buying anything that is affected by ARR.
Dear Sir, * I have simply stopped buying anything that is affected by ARR. * I ignore anything in auction catologues with ARR in the description. * If the threshold is raised it would open up the market for my companybecause 90%+ of my sales are below £3000. * I have spoken to living artists […]
Artist Resale Royalty – 9 Questions for the Senate….
Minister representing the Minister for the Arts in the Senate SENATE QUESTION Resale Royalty Scheme Question No. 2677 Senator Humphries asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Arts in the Senate on 24 January 2013: With reference to the artists resale royalty scheme and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL): 1. What is the total […]
With friends like this: Regulation by the unregulated… By John R Walker
“In 2008-09, DEWHA was assessed as non-compliant for the Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009 and a post-implementation review is required to commence within one to two years of implementation.”¹ The reason why the Artist Resale Royalty Act was assessed as non-compliant was because the Office for the Arts did not do the […]
For or Against – Artist’s Resale Right, Raising the Threshold…
Dear Colleagues Many of you might be aware of Art Dealer Niall Fairhead ‘s battle over the course of the past year and a half to persuade the British Government to raise the start threshold of Artist’s Resale Right from 1000 euros to 3000 euros. This increase in the threshold would bring the UK’s implementation […]
NEWS – Bid for rise in Artist’s Resale Right threshold
Dear AAD Friends and Colleagues Please find below a note and a request from Art Dealer Niall Fairhead, concerning the Artist’s Resale Right threshold in the UK. Raising the threshold The “Fight for the threshold” has been quiet for a very long time. However it has not gone away and is about, we hope soon, […]
NEWS – Supreme Court says copyright law does not protect publishers in discount re-sales
The Supreme Court has ruled that textbooks and other goods made and sold abroad can be re-sold online and in discount stores without violating U.S. copyright law. In a 6-3 opinion, the court overturned a copyright infringement award to publisher John Wiley & Sons against Thai graduate student Supap Kirtsaeng, who used eBay to resell […]
Happy New Year! AAD year in review.
Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors! Best wishes for a fantastic 2013! Elliot In its busiest month AAD had 19,742 views. 19742 people is enough to fit almost 1.5 times into the dockland arena to see Kylie Minogue perform. In 2012, there were 490 new posts, growing the total archive of AAD to […]
Every museum in the U.S. that exhibits modern art created overseas could potentially be infringing – John R. Walker
There is a case before the US high Court( Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sonsbefore) that at first seems to have little to do the public exhibition of modern art. Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons Involves a Thai student , Kirtsaeng, who while studying in the US realised that he could cheaply buy text […]
John R. Walker – Unassignable and Inalienable Right?
1. Member States shall provide that authors who are nationals of third countries and, subject to Article 8(2), their successors in title shall enjoy the resale right in accordance with this Directive and the legislation of the Member State concerned only if legislation in the country of which the author or his/her successor in title […]
May 25, 2013 by Editors
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