Recent amendments to the Copyright Act of Canada created the "exhibition right", i.e., artists now have the right to prohibit exhibition unless charged a fee. However, the fee is negotiable between the artist and the exhibitor. All the various cases described in this thread have occurred in Canada, and the results have been as varied as the cases. While the right to demand a fee exists, payment of the fee can be waived; some artists have done so for various considerations of the kinds mentioned in the thread. More important is treatment of the right when an artist sells a work. If there is a simple bill of sale, all the buyer acquires is physical possession of his work. The buyer can place it is a private space, e.g. a living room, where the general public does not see it. However, if the buyer is a museum or gallery and the museum or gallery wants to exhibit the work, the agreement of purchase and sale must include right to exhibit. Usually the purchase price negotiated will include exhibition rights in some form, running the gamut from complete freedom to exhibit by the purchaser to various forms of restriction. Exhibition rights in an agreement of purchase and sale in Canada must now be covered in addition to others such as reproduction rights. I believe CARFAC has a model agreement of purchase and sale for artists, museums and galleries to use. Ken Heard Consultant Museologist Coordinator Technology and Transport Museums Sector Canadian Museums Association