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Originally Posted by barryem
When an artist paints a picture and sells it he loses any claim to it.
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I know this isn't relevant to your point, but I'd just like to mention out that this isn't true anymore.
Artists retain the copyright in their works, even if the original belongs to someone else. Just because I own a picture by (say) Andy Warhol, I can't make money by selling copies of it.
Recently, in the UK, there's now also Artist's Resale Right, which lasts as long as copyright. There are similar laws throughout the EU, since the UK law implements an EU directive. When a work gets resold, a small percentage of the sale price goes to the original artist.