Oh, that's a new slant on the vexed question of copyright.
I would suggest that (under UK rules) in the absence of any other
agreement, if you buy the original painting you are also buying the
copyright which means that you could have prints made if you wished.
If you buy a print of a painting it's much the same as buying a
print/photocopy of a lace pattern; yours to use but not copy for others
to use. The original pattern, the intellectual property, stays with
the originator. How often do you see an original lace pattern drawing
offered for sale? Very seldom because the designer generally wants to
retain her copyright. Original paintings are sold, and usually that's
the end of the artist's rights to it. Sometimes you see prints on sale
for a few pounds and the original offered for considerably more, but in
those cases the right of copying would be spelt out at the time of
purchase.
Last summer the art class I which attend and another with the same
tutor did a Rolf Harris style montage of Eduard Manet's 'A Bar at the
Folies Bergere' which was painted in 1832 just a year before Manet
died. Our tutor got all the proper permissions from the Courtauld
Gallery, including the purchase of a quality print of the picture to
cut up. The copyright on the painting itself would have expired many
years ago but Jonathan still asked for, and was given, permission to
use the picture in that way. As I understand it, the (original Manet)
painting is displayed in a private gallery and the gallery owners have
the right to allow or refuse photography of it.
That's my two penn'th, but if anyone knows otherwise....
Brenda
If I buy an original painting (for example from a street vendor) --
can I then do whatever I wish with it - including have prints made and
sell them when he becomes famous, or is my right limited.
The question assumes there is no supplementary agreement to the
sale/purchase. And the other side of the coin -- if I do buy it, can
he later sell prints, absent an agreement to the contrary.
TAI
Susan Webster
Ohio
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