Artists are to get paid when their work is resold in a shakeup of copyright laws that would give them a slice of collectors' profits.
OTTAWA -- Artists are to get paid when their work is resold in a shakeup of copyright laws that would give them a slice of collectors' profits.
Montreal abstract artist Claude Tousignant, whose painting Accelerateur Chromatique 90 resold in 2012 for $110,000, is among the artists supporting reform of the law. He would have received $5,500 had changes to copyright law being prepared by Ministers, been in place when it was resold. It says at least 90 countries, including the United Kingdom and France, already have resale rights for artists, but Canada is lagging behind, driving many artists to abandon their craft because they cannot make a living from it.
Bovey, former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, said France has had resale rights for over 100 years and the change to copyright laws is far overdue in Canada. Paddy Lamb, an artist based in Edmonton, said it's very hard to make a living in the arts even for established artists.
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