Joe Fig on Artist's Network
/The magazines I write for buy all the rights, in perpetuity, to all the articles they commission me to write. More and more frequently I'm seeing articles I wrote years ago, repurposed. In this case I'd written a feature review on miniatures in art for Artist's Magazine that included a short discussion of the amazing miniaturist Joe Fig.
They have plundered their archives, taking my article and created a mash-up written by someone else. I was paid well for the original piece, but I don't get royalties, and neither do artists when their work is resold, usually at auction, and often at much higher prices than the collector originally paid for it. Such is the art market. At least they gave me credit in the byline which is OK. It just adds to a rather long list of publishing credits and demonstrates the longevity of articles I've pitched and that they've greenlighted.