3.0.0 2000 2019-11-15T21:59:54Z 2019-11-15T21:59:54Z Senate S S 2011-12-15 112 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-12-15T19:07:14Z Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 112 3688 HR 2012-01-06 Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet. Identical bill CRS 2011-12-15 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8681-8682) IntroReferral 2011-12-15 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8681) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2011-12-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. N Commerce Administrative law and regulatory procedures Art, artists, authorship Intellectual property Library of Congress User charges and fees Commerce 00 2011-12-15 Introduced in Senate 2012-01-26T19:47:18Z Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 - Requires, whenever a work of visual art is sold for at least $10,000 at an auction by someone other than the authoring artist, that the entity collecting the money or other consideration pay a royalty equal to 7% of the price to a visual artists' collecting society.

Defines an "auction" as public sale run by an entity that: (1) sells to the highest bidder works of visual art in which the cumulative amount of such works sold during the previous year is over $25 million, and (2) does not solely conduct the sale of such visual art on the Internet.

Requires the collecting society to: (1) distribute half of the net royalty to the artist or their successor as copyright owner, and (2) deposit the other half into an escrow account to fund purchases by U.S. nonprofit art museums of works of visual art authored by living artists domiciled in the United States.

Establishes a copyright infringement offense for the failure of the entity collecting the money or other consideration to pay such a royalty. Subjects an infringer to the payment of statutory damages.

Excludes works of visual art from copyright notice procedures.

Directs the Register of Copyrights to issue regulations governing the designation and oversight of visual artists' collecting societies.

Requires that specified fees be paid to the Register out of the total royalty payments received by collecting societies.

]]> Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 Display Title Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the copyright law to secure the rights of artists of works of visual art to provide for royalties, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2011-12-15T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s2000is/xml/BILLS-112s2000is.xml 2011-12-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8681-8682) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.