Works by long dead artists have proven they have value.
If your favorite dead artist isn't on this list, he/she didn't win the Grammy.
Money owed to artists now dead will go to their estates.
Sometimes the professor even strikes up a conversation with dead artists.
Listening to a dead artist makes the artist still seem alive.
The question of whether a dead artist owns his or her work becomes a detail.
And so they buy art from dead artists.
And as a rule, you make more of a profit off a dead artist than a live one.
We're used to being told dark secrets about dead artists, but suddenly it's open season on twentieth century public figures.
The receipts were distributed among those who'd been supported by the dead artists.