ARTISTS RESALE RIGHT (also known as the droite de suite) requires the payment of a resale royalty to the artist each time their work is resold by a gallery, agent, auction house or dealer. The right generally applies to only to works over a certain value. 

The Artists Resale Right is law in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

Canadian artists whose work is bought and sold in countries which have the Resale Right should inquire with a rights management agency such as DACS to ascertain if they are elegible to receive payments, or to regisiter if they have negotiated the payment of resale royalties in sales contracts.

Canadian visual artists making sales in Canada, the US and other countries currently without Artists Resale Right Legislation are encouraged to include resale rights agreements in all of their sales contracts (contract templates are available from CARFAC) .

Information on Artists Resale Rights (ARR)

CARFAC National Campaign

World OVERVIEW               VIDEO introduction to ARR

Wikipedia Droit de suite     About.com Artists Resale Right 

LISTEN Panel on ARR at 2009 World Copyright Summit

EUROPEAN UNION

UNITED KINGDOM 

IRELAND - IVARO 

USA - State of California

AUSTRALIA announces Re-sale royalty right for artists, May 2008

AUSTRALIA passes re-sale right , November 2009

NEW ZEALAND announces Re-sale royalty right for artists, May 2008

Rights Management Agencies

 DACS -Design & Artists Copyright Society - UK

CAL -Copyright Agency Limited - AUSTRALIA