By Joel Secter Canadian visual artists celebrated on Sparks Street in Ottawa after their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was allowed from the bench on May 14, 2014.1 They have been embroiled in a legal dispute with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) since negotiation of a scale agreement with the iconic institution […]
Visual Artists Granted Leave to Appeal
Visual Artists Granted Leave to Supreme Court By Joel Secter Getting to the Supreme Court of Canada is no easy feat, so we took notice of the Court’s recent announcement that they have granted Canada’s professional visual artists leave to appeal.[1] The case stems from a complaint filed pursuant the Status of the Artist Act […]