tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post6879477385828736042..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital ReproductionMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-60093133690954724732011-02-07T05:45:18.408+00:002011-02-07T05:45:18.408+00:00Have seen reports that Mr Koons has dropped the ac...Have seen reports that Mr Koons has dropped the action.John R walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-43395537134799227052011-02-03T23:59:52.965+00:002011-02-03T23:59:52.965+00:00Hugo
The survey's purpose is to gather attit...Hugo <br />The survey's purpose is to gather attitudes to copyright and resale royalties. <br /><br />You can leave contact details with the survey and DACS 'may' contact you. Obviously this survey is aimed at recruiting people who are favourable to DACS' interest and who would be prepared to act as promotional advocates of its position. It is not a scientific survey.<br /><br />I suggest you read Bernard Lang (the the essay I recomended to you). The claim of the possibility of collective representation of things as disparate as artists is based on a classification (clade) error. Artists are so disparate as to have almost nothing economically or socially in common. The idea that any one entity could truly represent ALL of such a disparate group is irrational and wrong. It makes even less sense than the medieval bestiaries that classify dolphins and tuna as being of the same type because they both swan in the sea.<br /><br />For many artists, the actual exercise of the resale royalty is antithetical to their own economic interests. For them, the best enjoyment of the right is non-use of the right.<br />Obviously a collection agency with high fixed costs is strongly interested in collecting as many royalties as possible. The UK resale royalty scheme fails all three of the Stockholm tests that are integral to the Berne Convention.John R walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-82685313913481333502011-02-03T13:08:07.815+00:002011-02-03T13:08:07.815+00:00I went through the questionnaire before posting - ...I went through the questionnaire before posting - though not sure I can say that I did so in detail (I wasn't filling it out).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-41165302087323532332011-02-02T23:31:39.876+00:002011-02-02T23:31:39.876+00:00Jeremy /Hugo, I have you completed the DACS questi...Jeremy /Hugo, I have you completed the DACS questionnaire. Have either you actually looked at it in detail?<br /><br />Personally, I can't wait for the "ALL artists just love it" line. Would be very interested in the survey participation rate and just how many of these are actually people who make and sell art for a living. According to an earlier IPO report on the first two years of the British resale scheme, 47% of all of the monies collected went to just 20 individual artists.John R walkernoreply@blogger.com