U.S. Congress - H.R.3688 Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
H.R.3688 - Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
To amend the copyright law to secure the rights of artists of works of visual art to provide for royalties, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)
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- Official: To amend the copyright law to secure the rights of artists of works of visual art to provide for royalties, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 as introduced.
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Official Summary
12/15/2011--Introduced.Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 - Requires, whenever a work of visual art is sold for at least $10,000 at an auction by someone other than the authoring artist, that the entity collecting the money or other consideration pay a royalty equal to 7% of the price tOfficial Summary
12/15/2011--Introduced.Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 - Requires, whenever a work of visual art is sold for at least $10,000 at an auction by someone other than the authoring artist, that the entity collecting the money or other consideration pay a royalty equal to 7% of the price to a visual artists' collecting society. Defines an "auction" as public sale run by an entity that:(1) sells to the highest bidder works of visual art in which the cumulative amount of such works sold during the previous year is over $25 million, and
(2) does not solely conduct the sale of such visual art on the Internet. Requires the collecting society to:
(1) distribute half of the net royalty to the artist or their successor as copyright owner, and
(2) deposit the other half into an escrow account to fund purchases by U.S. nonprofit art museums of works of visual art authored by living artists domiciled in the United States. Establishes a copyright infringement offense for the failure of the entity collecting the money or other consideration to pay such a royalty. Subjects an infringer to the payment of statutory damages. Excludes works of visual art from copyright notice procedures. Directs the Register of Copyrights to issue regulations governing the designation and oversight of visual artists' collecting societies. Requires that specified fees be paid to the Register out of the total royalty payments received by collecting societies.
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H.R.3688 Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
ethylmax
August 09, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 25th Congressional district of Texas. I am writing as your constituent in the 25th Congressional district of Texas. I am writing as your constituent in the 25th Congressional district of Texas. I support H.R.3688 - Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
Sincerely,
Joi Holcomb -
H.R.3688 Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
japfaa
August 09, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 26th Congressional district of New York. I support H.R.3688 and S.2000 - the Equity for Visual Artists Act, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
This legislation is just one step towards meeting US treaty obligations as a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. For nearly one hundred years, international copyright law und...
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