As artists continue to duel with auction houses in court over resale royalties they say they are owed under a California statute, New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) today introduced a bill that would create resale royalty rights under federal law. Read More
CARFAC, a group that lobbies on behalf of Canadian artists, is calling on the country’s government to enact a resale royalty law that would guarantee artists a five-percent cut when one of their artworks is resold, CBC reports. Read More
As Chuck Close and a group of other artists wage a legal battle against Sotheby’s and Christie’s, alleging that the houses owe them hundreds of thousands of dollars under a California resale royalties law, the Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA), a nonprofit group that defends the intellectual property of its more than 6,000 international artists, is lobbying for the passage of a federal royalties law that might resolve the issue for future resales. Read More
