A Proposed Federal Bill for Artist’s Resale Royalties

15 Oct A Proposed Federal Bill for Artist’s Resale Royalties

Theodore Feder, the President of the Artist’s Rights Society, and Bruce Lehman, a former U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office commissioner, are lobbying Congress to adopt a federal
bill that would grant resale rights to artists whose work is sold at
major auction houses in this country. The proposal, the latest in three
decades’ worth of attempts to institute such a law, first initiated by Ted Kennedy in 1993, follows a court ruling
that invalidates the only resale royalty statute on the books in the
United States, a California state law that is almost never heeded or
enforced.

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