Wealthy UK Artists Want Their Families To Get Paid Multiple Times For Their Artwork
from the incentive-to-create? dept
A few years ago, we wrote about the rather silly plan in the UK to create an "artist resale right." This says that even if an artist has sold his or her work, if that work is resold, the artist still gets a 4% cut. The non-economic thinking on this is that an artist is forced to sell his or her work when it's not valued as high, and thus deserves a cut when the value is much higher. However, that's not at all what is happening. Instead, evidence has shown that this is more often used to depress the local art market by making it more expensive to sell art (and decreasing the incentives of anyone to resell any art they've bought). It profits big name artists, but tends to hurt the lesser known artists (you know, the ones it's supposed to help).So, of course, it should come as no surprise that the wealthy artists who benefit the most from this resale right in the UK are looking to expand it (found via Against Monopoly). Currently, it only applies to living artists. However, they're now pushing to extend the right to 70 years after death, where the family of the artist will be compensated -- claiming that families deserve to be compensated for artwork a family member may have sold off a century earlier because: "Our loved ones often sacrifice a lot to support an artist in the family." Of course, there are lots of sacrifices that families make for people in other professions as well, but they don't get paid a century later for their efforts. This clearly has nothing to do with encouraging more art, since it seems to discourage that. It is, like so many "intellectual property" grants, a way for established creators to get more money out of what they already created, while hurting the market for new upstarts.
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Twisted thinking
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Sacrificed
They're like buzzards picking over a corpse
for the last tastey morsel.
Intellectual property rights should terminate
with the intellect that created the property,
if not sooner.
The design of machines and devices is just
as much a creative effort as writing or painting.
If we applied the same logic and were granted
the same rights, I doubt if the steam age would
have ever ended.
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Who sacrificed what now?
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Me me me me me! It's always about ME and what I sacrificed.
Fuck you. The general public, nor myself didn't tell you to marry an artist. So it's my fault you married an artist? Get a life.
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For that matter, my grandparents were immigrants, and they suffered too. Where's my remuneration for that?
What a bunch of talentless, molly-coddled greedy fucks. I think they need to go out and get real jobs like the rest of us, and quit trying to leech off the talent of their long-dead relatives. "Oh, boo-hoo for me, my great-great-great-grandfather drew a pen-and-ink drawing, and I should get paid every time it changes hands."
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This.
Likewise, I'm not responsible for their choice of trade or business model - they're not entitled to anything. If you can't make money doing something, change trade. Don't blame the public.
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I guess the same should apply to home builders, car makers, anything that is made and appreciates in value.
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A note to all Wealthy UK Artists..
YOU MAKE MONEY BY PRODUCING NOT BEING A JEW
Thank you
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Insurance?
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bah
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I suppose
Probably not.
Why?
This is strictly profit-driven greed.
The choices we make entail a certain amount of risk. It is not the job of the government to give us risk-free lives.
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Yes it is. That is what socialist EU does. That is what liberal democrats want. The song "Mother" from Pink Floyd's The Wall is so representative today...and that was thirty years ago...in Europe...where things are really getting screwy.
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Funny how when anything like this happens it's always "liberals" this and "socialist" that, even if it's a conservative government who suggests it.
Look on your side of the pond at what's happening to you, what the RIAA, MPAA and other organisations are attempting to push through before you comment on us. You should be more concerned about the rights you have gradually eroding away as we speak in the name of "fighting piracy/drugs/terror" than what's happening in a continent you clearly don't understand.
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Wake up, moron, America is becoming a corporatist dictatorship that has NOTHING to do with a free market. Monopolies and cartels are exactly the opposite of free market, and IP laws are everything about monopolies and cartels.
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but, i'm not. every single leech out there, every parasite that thinks he's OWED something just because he had the misfortune to be born...oh man, the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.
i wish i was numb...
oh well, fuck it. i'm off to donate more money to the eff. you should all do the same.
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Why Just Art?
For instance: I built a deck for a friend several years ago which added value to his house. He paid me for the work, but when he sold his home the bastard gave me nothing when the deck's value finally paid off and made his home more attractive to buyers. Insult to injury, the house changed hands again two years later and, again, I got nothing. This, despite the fact that the deck is still as solid and beauteous as the day I drove the last nail home. I have been cheated!
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FUBAR
If I buy a work of art from a friend and sell it later with a large benefit, of course I will give a cut to my friend. It's just commonsense. Anything beyond that is absolute BS.
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how would this even work?
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Grammar Nazi
Apostrophe's and they're amazin' use's
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I do not understand
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