People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — Tho Rights in a Picture. [ARTICLE]

Tho Rights in a Picture.

They have curions ideas of ownership in Europe, says the Washington Post. In France there is an unwritten but immutable law that a painting shall not\ be exhibited without the artist’s consent, no malter what the wishes of the owner may be. And now a literary and artistic congress in session at Milan, Italy, has decided that the right of re* production ,does not pass to the buyer of a picture. Thus you may pay for u picture, have it in your possession, and have a clear and free titlo to it, but you don’t quits own it after aIL