Re: droit de suite

On 04/05/2000, Christine L. Sundt <csundt[_at_]oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> The CAA is working on a Q&A regarding copyright & the arts hoping
> to address the needs of the artist-practitioner as well as the
> artist-teacher plus art historians, museum curators, and independent
> art scholars. This ambitious project needs help from people like you.

Thanks, Christine, for the nice things you say. I actually did serve on the Legislative Committee for NYAE, and we monitored bills going before the legislature that might affect artists. I hope we were useful, and it was wonderful to be given the opportunity to explain the circumstances and customs of the art world to legislators who otherwise might not have known. And of course that's the other side of the coin. It's good to have lawyers willing to explain the law to artists. But the communication has to flow the other way as well: sometimes laws are ill-designed for what they intend to accomplish, because the people who drafted them didn't fully understand customs and circumstances in the art world.

As you're with a library, you may already have this book: but I think Lerner and Bressler, _Art Law_, is really excellent, and quite readable. It has wonderful things in it like Matisse's contract with his dealer.

best,

pat sloane
<patsloane[_at_]aol.com> Received on Wed Apr 05 2000 - 12:39:13 GMT