Depends. A number of net art works have been purchased by various public and
private collectors and archivists and as with all things, it depends on who
is the buyer and who is the seller. I agree with Patrick that a Copyleft
solution is the ideal. But then again, we are artists and we need to make a
living.
My experience is that prices for a web based work (by which I mean something
that can only exist on the net and is therefore most likely an executable,
not an image, but could be a simple hyperlinked series of "pages" or a whole
software environment) could sell for anything between US$1,000 to US$25,000,
depending on the complexity of the work, the "reputation" of the artist,
whether the rights are unique or not and the budget of the purchaser.
Whether prices go up or down from there is anybody's guess. A Copyleft
solution avoids that whole anxiety.
Best
Simon
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> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:57:18 -0500
> From: Kim Simon <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: copyright fee structure?
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> I'm hoping someone on this list might suggest some resources to help my=20=
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> gallery set copyright fees for the inclusion of existing web-based art=20=
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> projects in a "permanent" online archive. Obviously it doesn't make=20
> sense to consider the web works as single images (which we would pay,=20
> for example, $70 Canadian funds each) but I'm trying to determine how=20
> to pay out in relative terms. Anybody have any experience with this?=20
> I've been calling a few organizations in Canada that I would have=20
> thought had gotten to this point but I'm hitting brick walls - is this=20=
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> still so new?
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> Any thoughts most appreciated.
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> Kim Simon
> Director of Programming
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> Gallery TPW
> 80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
> Toronto, ON. M5V 2J3
> (416) 504-4242
> www.photobasedart.ca
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Simon Biggs
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Professor, Fine Art, Art and Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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