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Old 05-04-2016, 09:30 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
And now I am confused.

Why on earth would resale get the creator a royalty, any more than resale of used paper books?
Or selling a house for the fifteenth time should get the construction crew a new salary???


That has nothing whatsoever to do with copyright!
Depending on the art, there is quite a market for prints, think velvet Elvis or some of the art that one finds in SF&F conventions for example.

It's really quite straight forward, copyright is the right to copy. The individual works falls under first sale principle, i.e. once the artist sales a painting to someone, he no longer controls what happens to the painting. You can sell it to anyone for however much you like without the artist getting a dime. However, you can't make copies of the painting without the artist permission.
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