"Damage to small businesses from the Artist's Resale Right" - The Campaign and the Petition: Feb 4. 2012 | Comments (12)
"Damage to small businesses from the Artist's Resale Right" - The Campaign and the Petition:
Now that the Campaign for amendment of the “rules” of the ARR is under way it is important to know something about it’s structure. There are several areas of information to which activists and supporters should look:
1) For General points about the ARR made by dealers , collectors and sympathisers:
This present magisterial Blogg was started by John Robertson who, in many ways, can be said to have “spearheaded” the current wave of protest. As of writing today there are over 100 separate posts on this Blogg. You are encouraged to contribute to this in a positive way. Please do not lambast the opposite point of view in an unconstructive way. There is no point. It is only by factual and rational argument that our argument will prevail.
2) Artist’s Resale Right – dossier of damage to small businesses
This Blogg is fostered by the main Trade Organsisations in the UK and is signed by Mark Dodgson, Secretary General of BADA, Christopher Battiscombe, Director General of SLAD and Sarah Percy-Davis, Chief Executive of LAPADA. In many ways this is the most important campaign site. If sufficient examples of damage to small art business can be properly documented it will prove to be a cogent tool in the hands of our professional negotiators when the time for reviewing the adverse effect of ARR in 2014. All activists are very much encouraged to support this Blogg with their own tales of woe. A word of advice, however: No matter how hard are your feelings please use rational argument rather then invective! Reason is more powerful then insult!
3) Damage to small businesses from the Artist's Resale Right - The Petition
The Petition itself:
Bloggs about the Petition and the Campaign:
This Blogg will be duplicated to be present both here and on the petition itself in order that the maximum publicity can be obtained. We have already achieved a substantial number of protests in the form of signatures. We would draw your attention to a few points:
- Our target is 10,000 signatures - preferably 20,000. This is going to take a lot of effort and trouble to achieve but to make this a valuable tool in the hands of our professional negotiators it needs to have “length and depth”. The “length” is the number of signatures. The “depth” is the valuable comments made on each signature.
- Just signing the petition is not “Job Done”. Activists need to get their family, friends, employees, clients, associates and neighbors also to support “The Cause”. We are gratified to see owners of large Galleries and Art organisations who have rendered their support - THIS BY IT'S OWN IS NOT ENOUGH. Unity is strength. This is a numbers game and numbers are important.
- Please do put a name on each signature. We are dismayed that many parties are “anonymous”. There is no need for anonymity - everyone should proudly announce their name to give their voice respectability. Similarly everyone is encouraged to say who they are and what company or organisation they represent.
- The comments beneath each signature we consider to be of great value. It is, however, important to ensure that they are all “on message”. For example to go off on a tangent about auctioneers buyers premiums is ‘off message”. It may be a valid point but it has to be to THE point. THE point is the aims and objectives of the petition. Invective and insulting comments are discouraged. Constructive and helpful comments are what are needed - in quantity, cogent, powerful and effective. Where a “bad” comment has been made it must be remembered that this is an individual point of view and not necessarily the opinion of the Sponsors or the majority of activists.
We thank you for your valued support.
Niall & Christina Fairhead
Fairhead Fine Art Limited t/a Images
nfairhead@images-art.co.uk
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4th May 2012 - The day of the 1000th signature:
At about 10.00 am this morning the petition received it’s 1000th signature. It was very fitting that this signature should be by none other then Mark Bridge the Editor in Chief of the Antiques Trade Gazette. Mark and Ivan at the ATG have been of monumental help in promoting and publicizing this campaign.
I sent out an e-mail this morning, addressed to Mark with copies to all our friends, the principal Campaign Members which read as follows:
“ I saw with great joy that we have now passed the 1000th signature on the petition this morning and that you, yourself, are number 1000 ! I do find it fitting that this should be so in view of the great and much appreciated support your newspaper has afforded to our efforts on this matter for which I thank you most sincerely.
The Campaign also has to give a huge "THANKYOU" to it's friends at LAPADA, BADA, SLAD, BAMF, SOFAA, AWAD, FATG and RICS. Huge accolades for the founding of the campaign must go to John Robertson and Derek Newman. The most credit, however, has to go to Elliot Lee, ably assisted by Francesca Fiumano at The Art, Antiques & Design Blogg without whose help and energy certainly none of this would have happened.
Without the help of all these parties we would not be in a position where we are today of a successful petition with 1000 signatures and an ongoing campaign against the Artists Resale Right extension.
Ivan Macquisten, as you all know, has been working very tirelessly on this campaign and through his greatly valued efforts the Campaign postcard will be sent out next week to the readership of the ATG and onwards to the Arts Minister. It will be interesting to see how well this does !!! “
Next week the postcard Campaign begins. A huge printing of the Campaign card, lamenting the sad suicide death of Mr Art Dealer on the 1st January 2012 due to his “DAX Problem” will be going out in force. This will go out to many thousands of people who will be requested to stamp it and send it on to the Arts Minister with a note about their personal “take” on the Artists Resale Right extension. I urge all Art Professionals to support this initiative and join in “A week of protest”. I honestly believe that our joint and combined efforts will lead to some mitigation in these harsh, unmerited, unfair and unfair new laws.
If you have not done so please sign online now on :
"Damage to small businesses from the Artist's Resale Right" Please sign our online petition on the link : http://twurl.nl/nlg82i
Niall & Christina Fairhead
Fairhead Fine Art Limited
Petition Sponsors
www.images-art.co.uk
nfairhead@images-art.co.uk
+44 (0)208 455 2700
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Times are very hard for small galleries. The burden of administering ARR on sales of between €1000 and €3000 ads significantly to the costs associated with these and erases a significant percentage of the profit margin.
As a small gallery of only three staff members specialising in original prints and multiples by famous twentieth century artists, we are in the unhappy position of having virtually all of our sales falling into the more burdensome 4% category of ARR. As a gallery we do not represent any new or less commercially significant artists resulting in all the ARR we collect being passed on to some of the wealthiest artist estates.
We strongly urge the UK government to increase the threshold of ARR to €3000 and help relieve some of the difficulty experienced by small galleries in the administration of this inherently flawed system.
William Weston Gallery