N.Y. Arts and Cultural Affairs Law § 15.03: Information required

§ 15.03. Information required. The following information shall be

supplied, as indicated, as to each multiple produced on or after January

first, nineteen hundred eighty-two:

1. Artist. State the name of the artist.

2. Signature. If the artist's name appears on the multiple, state

whether the multiple was signed by the artist. If not signed by the

artist then state the source of the artist's name on the multiple, such

as whether the artist placed his signature on the master, whether his

name was stamped or estate stamped on the multiple, or was from some

other source or in some other manner placed on the multiple.

3. Medium or process. (a) Describe the medium or process, and where

pertinent to photographic processes the material, used in producing the

multiple, such as whether the multiple was produced through etching,

engraving, lithographic, serigraphic or a particular method and/or

material used in the photographic developing processes. If an

established term, in accordance with the usage of the trade, cannot be

employed accurately to describe the medium or process, a brief, clear

description shall be made.

(b) If the purported artist was deceased at the time the master was

made which produced the multiple, this shall be stated.

(c) If the multiple or the image on or in the master constitutes a

mechanical, photomechanical, hand-made or photographic type of

reproduction, or is a reproduction, of an image produced in a different

medium, for a purpose other than the creation of the multiple being

described, this information and the respective mediums shall be stated.

(d) If paragraph (c) of this subdivision is applicable, and the

multiple is not signed, state whether the artist authorized or approved

in writing the multiple or the edition of which the multiple being

described is one.

4. Use of master. (a) If the multiple is a "posthumous" multiple, that

is, if the master was created during the life of the artist but the

multiple was produced after the artist's death, this shall be stated.

(b) If the multiple was made from a master which produced a prior

limited edition, or from a master which constitutes or was made from a

reproduction of a prior multiple or of a master which produced prior

multiples, this shall be stated.

5. Time produced. As to multiples produced after nineteen hundred

forty-nine, state the year or approximate year the multiple was

produced. As to multiples produced prior to nineteen hundred fifty,

state the year, approximate year or period when the master was made

which produced the multiple and/or when the particular multiple being

described was produced. The requirements of this subdivision shall be

satisfied when the year stated is approximately accurate.

6. Size of the edition. (a) If the multiple being described is offered

as one of a limited edition, this shall be so stated, as well as the

number of multiples in the edition, and whether and how the multiple is

numbered.

(b) Unless otherwise disclosed, the number of multiples stated

pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall constitute an

express warranty, as defined in section 13.01 of this title, that no

additional numbered multiples of the same image, exclusive of proofs,

have been produced.

(c) The number of multiples stated pursuant to paragraph (a) of this

subdivision shall also constitute an express warranty, as defined in

section 13.01 of this title, that no additional multiples of the same

image, whether designated "proofs" other than trial proofs, numbered or

otherwise, have been produced in an amount which exceeds the number in

the limited edition by twenty or twenty percent, whichever is greater.

(d) If the number of multiples exceeds the number in the stated

limited edition as provided in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, then

state the number of proofs other than trial proofs, or other numbered or

unnumbered multiples, in the same or other prior editions, produced from

the same master as described in paragraph (b) of subdivision four of

this section, and whether and how they are signed and numbered.