Artists to cash in when work is resold with update of copyright laws

Painters, sculptors and other visual artists stand to get a payout when their work is resold at auction and by galleries, in a government move designed to help sustain thousands of artists currently working below the poverty line.

The late Inuk artist, Kenojuak Ashevak, sold a work called Enchanted Owl in 1960 for $24 and it was later resold for $158,500. There are over 21,000 visual artists in Canada, and according to the 2016 census, their median income is $20,000 a year from all income sources. The senator said she knew of many artists who had sold works at the beginning of their careers for small sums, and seen them appreciate "by 10 times or more."

I would never pay for art. Most of the stuff is garbage.

Then they should only licence their work and not sell it.

JMO, but that is unbelievably stoopid.

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