Links – May 18, 2008
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Art
Getty Images
- Art Law Blog picks up on Getty Images’s acquisition by Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion.
- Howard Knopf comments on Getty Images’s cease & desist letters
Resale Rights
- The Intellectual Property office in the UK has released a report it commissioned into the impact on Artist’s Resale Rights on the UK art market
- An alternative report, carried out by an art market specialist was also recently published
- An article “Row over resale right grows – Collecting societies refute findings of latest survey” that outlines collecting societies/copyright collectives response to the alternative report.
- Resale Royalty Rights for Australia’s Visual Artists (PDF)
- The Copyright (Artists’ Resale Right) Amendment Bill to insert a new, stand-alone part to establish a resale right for visual artists in New Zealand.
Orphan Works
