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House Heritage Committee chair Julie Dabrusin and her committee recently released a report that concluded that artists are not receiving 'fair market value for their work' because policies have failed to catch up with the evolving technology. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERIC MILLER

June 4, 2019

“The inability of policy to evolve with technology has prevented artists from receiving fair market value for their work.” That’s the conclusion of a

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