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ARTISTS' RESALE RIGHT

EDM number 106 in 2005-06, proposed by Derek Wyatt on 17/05/2005.

That this House notes the recent consultation on the implementation of the Artists' Resale Right Directive; further notes that the legislation entitles visual creators whose work is protected by copyright to a share of the price each time their work is resold thus helping the creative community by enabling artists to share in their work's commercial success and increasing value; acknowledges the concessions secured by the Government during the debates on that legislation to protect the interests of the art market by setting maximum percentages and capping levels for the resale right; agrees with the Design and Artists Copyright Society representing 36,000 fine artists and their heirs in addition to 16,000 photographers, illustrators, craftspeople, cartoonists, architects, animators and designers that the Directive should now be implemented in a way that ensures as many artists and their heirs as possible benefit from its provisions; welcomes the recent Report of the Culture Media and Sport Committee on its inquiry into the market for art which recommended that the threshold at which the resale right applies should be lowered from 3,000 euros to 1,000 euros, that the royalty rate of the price band up to 50,000 euros should be increased to five per cent., and that a system of compulsory collective administration should be introduced; and believes that if implemented in this way the legislation will give a substantial boost not only to thousands of artists and their heirs, but also the whole art market.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Derek Wyatt17/05/2005Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourProposed
Rudi Vis18/05/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones18/05/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Brian Iddon18/05/2005Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn18/05/2005Islington NorthLabourSeconded
David Taylor19/05/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Neil Gerrard23/05/2005WalthamstowLabourSigned
Betty Williams23/05/2005ConwyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/05/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer23/05/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty24/05/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Michael Clapham24/05/2005Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Mike Hancock24/05/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams24/05/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Flynn25/05/2005Newport WestLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin25/05/2005Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Colin Challen25/05/2005Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd25/05/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Mark Lazarowicz25/05/2005Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins25/05/2005TamworthLabourSigned
Martin Caton25/05/2005GowerLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell26/05/2005Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Colin Breed26/05/2005South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Walter06/06/2005North DorsetConservativeSigned
Mike Wood06/06/2005Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Janet Dean06/06/2005BurtonLabourSigned
Edward Davey06/06/2005Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty06/06/2005Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Marsha Singh06/06/2005Bradford WestLabourSigned
Adam Price06/06/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Lady Hermon07/06/2005North DownUUPSigned
Stephen Pound08/06/2005Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson09/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Alan Meale09/06/2005MansfieldLabourSigned
Janet Anderson09/06/2005Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Julie Morgan14/06/2005Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Lembit 20/06/2005MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Austin18/07/2005Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley15/05/2006RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned

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