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Artists, such as musicians and authors, receive royalties each time their artistic works are used or sold. Hear a song on the radio and you know that its creator will receive a check for its use. That is not always true for visual artists. How often has the astute art patron bought an artist�s early work, which they later sell for many times the price? The artist may have a copyright in the work but not in the resale of the original. Well, that might be changing. The Copyright Office has just issued a comprehensive report, �Resale Royalties: An Updated Analysis,� which proposes legal changes to copyright laws that will allow visual artists to receive royalties every time their original work is resold.

The copyright Office proposes a change to copyright laws that will allow visual artists to receive royalties every time their original art is sold.

By Steve Schlackman

It may be surprising to receive a free licensing agreement from an attorney but we think it is so important that we had to do it. Let�s start with a hypothetical scenario.

A Story About Latte Art

Janet recently opened a local coffee shop, called �The Grind,�. She then hires you as a photographer to shoot the new store and the unique Latte Art that has been drawing customers throughout the area. The photos will be used strictly for the Grind�s website. You complete the shoot, invoice Janet and are paid for the work. Six months pass. You are reading Wired magazine and see an article on a new coffee machine called �CoffeeArt�, which creates cool foam patterns automatically. On the product packaging, you see your unmistakable photographs from The Grind, with their telltale signature Latte Foam Art. You call Janet immediately.

Janet says, �Yeah, pretty cool right? That company was started by a friend of mine and I gave him those pictures for the product packaging.� You tell her she had no right to do that but she says that she bought the photos so they are hers to do with what she wants. You then contact CoffeeArt and tell them they are using your photos without permission and ask them to pay you for the use of the photos. CoffeeArt asks you to contact their attorney.

Artist�s rights in their street art, whether commissioned or guerrilla, has been in the news with some frequency lately, largely due to suits against American Eagle and Terry Gilliam. The slippery nature of copyright law has left many wondering where to draw the line between taking a photograph with street art in the background and taking a photo that infringes on a copyright. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. As we have pointed out before, artwork used without permission may not be considered an infringement. Rather, unauthorized use exists on a spectrum with clear infringement on one end and fair use on the other.

Source: Megan Ralstin - Art Law Journal

A new generation of Colombian artists and curators are benefiting from international exposure as the country�s political crisis recedes; art galleries, foundations and collectors are growing in numbers while its national economy flourishes. Hans Ulrich Obrist called this change the �Colombian milagro [miracle]� during an Art Basel Miami Beach talk back in December 2013.

The annual art fair in Bogot�, Artbo (24-27 October), launched ten years ago by the Bogot� Chamber of Commerce, has played a crucial role in galvanising Colombia�s art scene.
The fair has gained momentum since Maria Paz Gaviria, an art historian and daughter of a former Colombian president, took over three years ago. Gallery applications for the fair increased by 30% this year, Gaviria says. But one key ingredient of the fair�s success, she explains, is that it has frozen its size while offering a platform for new international art galleries and emerging talents. Only 20% of the 65 galleries in its main section are from Colombia, and while they tend to showcase Latin American artists, the fair features galleries from 30 different cities. Artbo offers a balance between veterans like Galeria Luisa Strina from S�o Paulo, Leon Tovar from New York and Ruth Benzacar from Buenos Aires, and young art galleries like Revolver from Lima, Mor-Charpentier from Paris, and Diablo Rosso from Panama City...

Jorge P�rez, of the P�rez Art Museum, Miami (Pamm), attended the fair this year and told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that, �Colombia has the best young artists in the world today�.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Joni Mitchell - In her own words - Conversations with Malka Maron

It�s paradoxical that while �art holds out the promise of inner wholeness� for those who experience it, the relationship between creativity and mental illness is well-documented among those who make it, as is the anguish of artists who experience it. This, perhaps, renders the cultivation and preservation of mental health all the more urgently important for artists and those operating on a high frequency of creativity.

Eight-time Grammy recipient Joni Mitchell (b. November 7, 1943), undoubtedly one of the most original and influential musicians of the past century, as well as an enormously talented painter, speaks to the value of therapy and a commitment to mental health in Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (public library) � that wonderful collection of wide-ranging conversations by musician, documentarian, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom, which also gave us Mitchell on freedom, creativity, and the dark side of success.

Thanks to our Fellow Artist Barney Davey and his fine Magazine http://artprintissues.com/ I stumbled upon this very important article about Bitcoin.

How it may affect the Art World, How can We Artists Benefit, etc.

Very important points that I decided to share with You on his behalf.

Hope you enjoy and find Lots of Benefits from it. After All the more Informed We are the More Successful We Can Become.

Regards,
Rafael Salazar

Art is a Gift that lasts forever. It is an Investment if you happen to find works from an Emerging Artist.

❝ Buying emerging art is the equivalent of investing in frontier market equities. Rather than buying the global names that appear in the big auctions of the best galleries, you invest in the artistic equivalent of Mongolia or Cambodia: the young artists coming out of MA programmes.❞

David Stevenson - The Financial Times

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