[ACC News] Petition to amend Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008

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The Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008 provides for artists
to receive a percentage of the sale price of their work each time it is
resold.

Based on the government¹s election promise to introduce a resale scheme,
artists expected the scheme to return royalties from resales that take place
from the time the legislation takes effect. However, under the Bill
introduced to the House of Representatives on 27 November 2008, artists will
not be entitled to royalties until works acquired by the seller on or after
1 July 2009 are later resold.

The Coalition for an Australian Resale Royalty (CARR) has launched a
petition to the government to amend the Bill so that artists can begin
receiving royalties on resales sooner.

CARR is a group of organisations representing around 100,000 visual artists,
designers, creators and copyright owners: Australian Copyright Council,
Viscopy, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), National Association for the Visual
Arts (NAVA), Arts Law Centre of Australia and International Confederation of
Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).

The petition is open for signature at

http://www.copyright.com.au/resale

More information about resale royalty:

http://www.copyright.org.au/resale_royalty
 
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