Hello everyone
I've just found this with Google:
http://painting.about.com/cs/artistscopyright/f/copyrightfaq15.htm
not sure if it's British or American, but it does state that copyright
remains with the artist when a picture is sold, unless agreed
otherwise.
This website
http://www.arsny.com/other.html#owners
makes it clear that in USA copyright is not automatically transferred
with the physical painting
From all this it does look as though purchase of an original painting
does not automatically transfer the copyright with it, so if the artist
has retained a good photographic record of his/her work then he/she is
still free to sell prints whilst the purchaser of the painting is not.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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