Artist Resale Royalties (aka ‘Droit de Suite’)

[Tin Can]

Ah, I cannot help but respond with video poetry. Dylan Thomas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRec3VbH3w

[Jim Jones]

Life is good, and getting better. I live in a tumbledown 122-year-old farmhouse where my father was born in 1894. For most of his life he did not have electricity. We did have running cold water in those days if there was enough breeze for the windmill. Hot water was heated on a kitchen stove. I remember the 1932 Chevvy that was probably worn out when replaced with a new 1940 model. Even that one was in poor shape before it reached 100,000 miles. We did get a John Deere model B tractor in 1939, but for some tasks horses were more useful. The JD didn't have lights, so even when the fields needed preparation, its workday was limited to daylight hours. Before and after then there were endless chores to do. Until the 1940s we heated and cooked with firewood. It takes a huge woodpile to make it through northern Missouri winters. We wasted no time watching television; there was none in the house until about 1970. We had all we really needed, and wanted for little more. Yes, life was good back then, but it's much better now.

[Tin Can]

I once knew a drunk, who always said, 'I never had a bad day in my life.'

I now agree with him, but it took me years to get here.

A few of those winters were spent in north woods cabin, where my father told me, 'Wood always heats twice, once when chopped and again when burned. Go cut wood'.

And we did hike a flat mile in deep snow to get to paradise.

'You Can't Go Home Again.' Thomas Wolfe

[Tin Can]

More news on the battle of basic rights.

Your rights to your Art.


http://hyperallergic.com/172688/coul...lties%20Debate

[gbogatko]

Randy Moe said: "I have deliberately removed myself from any possible royalties by 'not selling any art'."

That's one approach. When you hang a piece, label it "not for sale" -- and mean it.
Sort of a "strike" except strikes usually imply withholding something that others (a lot of others) want. If I ever do put up stuff for viewing, that's what I'm going to put on the label "not for sale."

[Tin Can]

Randy Moe said: "I have deliberately removed myself from any possible royalties by 'not selling any art'."

That's one approach. When you hang a piece, label it "not for sale" -- and mean it.
Sort of a "strike" except strikes usually imply withholding something that others (a lot of others) want. If I ever do put up stuff for viewing, that's what I'm going to put on the label "not for sale."

It can start with one Artist.