Every artwork, every edition, every royalty accounted for
Catalogue an artist's or estate's complete body of work: provenance chains, numbered editions, collecting-society affiliations and automatic droit de suite calculation — built for artists and estate managers, not developers.
The problem
Professional artists who paint, sculpt, compose and record build up decades of work with no system to track where each piece lives, who owns it, or whether France's mandated 4 percent resale royalty (droit de suite) has been triggered above the legal threshold. When an artist dies, heirs and executors must reconstruct an entire ownership history from paper records to value the estate and prove provenance — all while juggling SACEM, SDRM and ADAGP society rules that reject a work registered under the wrong discipline.
The solution
Artist Estate & Artwork Catalogue gives every artist and estate a single Odoo workspace that separates original creations from numbered edition copies, records the full chain of owners from creation to today, and automatically calculates the resale royalty the moment a qualifying sale is logged. Collecting-society affiliations are validated by discipline so a musical work can never be registered with a visual-arts society by mistake.
Everything an artist's estate needs to track
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Automatic Resale Royalty Calculation
The moment a provenance record logs a purchase on a qualifying visual work, the module calculates the 4 percent droit de suite due above the legal threshold — and correctly applies zero to musical compositions and recordings.
Artwork vs. Edition Copy Separation
Treat an original creation distinctly from its numbered edition copies. Each print or pressing is tracked as its own record with its own owner and history, not a single stock quantity.
Automatic Edition Counters
Every artwork keeps a running total of copies registered, still owned and sold, so an artist always knows remaining inventory without a manual tally.
Complete Provenance History
Record the full chain of successive owners with acquisition date and method — purchase, donation, inheritance, exchange or creation — the audit trail estates and buyers need to prove authenticity and value.
Collecting Society Affiliations
Manage independent membership in SACEM, SDRM and ADAGP, each defined in plain language, so artists track and maximise royalty claims across both music and visual-art bodies.
Discipline Validation
A built-in rule blocks a musical work from being registered with a visual-arts society and a visual work from a music-only society, preventing the data-entry errors that invalidate royalty claims.
Exhibition & Concert Logistics
Group multiple artworks and instruments onto a single exhibition or concert record and track their collective movement, so an artist always knows what left for a show and when it came back.
Six Disciplines, One Workspace
Painting, engraving, sculpture, composition, recording and photography all live in the same catalogue, uniquely serving the dual-practice artist who works across both music and visual art.
Configurable Compliance Settings
The resale-royalty rate and threshold are exposed as plain Settings fields, so the compliance rule can be tuned without touching code as regulations evolve.
How it works
Catalogue the work
Register each artwork with its discipline, medium and dimensions, and mark it as a unique piece or a numbered edition.
Record every owner
Log each acquisition — purchase, donation, inheritance or exchange — and the module keeps the current owner and resale royalty always up to date.
Affiliate with societies
Register works with SACEM, SDRM or ADAGP; discipline validation stops the wrong kind of work from ever being submitted.
Track shows, claim royalties
Group works for exhibitions and concerts, and review the Resale Royalties screen to see exactly what is owed.
Frequently asked
No sales fog. If your question isn't here, email us and we'll answer it the same way.
Droit de suite is a French legal right entitling artists to a royalty when their visual artwork is resold above a threshold. The module applies a configurable rate (4 percent by default) to the sale price of qualifying visual works sold above a configurable threshold (750 currency units by default), and automatically excludes musical works.
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Artist Estate & Artwork Catalogue
Artworks, edition copies, provenance history and collecting-society affiliations across six disciplines — with automatic droit de suite resale royalty calculation and discipline validation.
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