Dear Panel-
I have been working on a legal concept for the past twelve years which at first bite seems a simplistic bit of trivia, but I assure you that upon further examination could prove revolutionary as it negates the whole system of grants and handouts to artists in the U.S. as per local and national Arts Councils where the Artist is required to be a 'Supplicant'.
The basis of my thesis is that due to the seventy years provided after the death of the artist, his or her estate has that period of time to settle all debts. When I presented this finding to Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, explaining that therefore the artist was virtually unbankruptable he said that he "...understood perfectly."
I presented my findings to my local Mayor and to the Governor of the State of Connecticut as well as to the Deputy Chief Bank Examiner of this State who truly did understand how by my affixing my signature to a canvas I had created wealth.
With a well conceived and thought out Business Plan, the Artist -- instead of being the airheads we are thought of to be -- are in a position to issue Stock Certificates (Reproductions of our Works of Art) that will never become worthless and to use our originals as Instruments of Debenture (Bonds) to capitalize all the money-making schemes we have thought up while starving our way to the top!!!
I would very much like to have some feedback from the Forum as I have been reading your dialogues avidly for almost a year.
ROSS. American, (1947- ).
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