R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-62-3: Public display, publication, and reproduction of works of fine art.

Except as limited by § 5-62-5, no person other than the artist, or a person acting with the artist’s consent, shall knowingly display in a public exhibition a work of fine art of that artist or shall publish a reproduction of a work of the artist in an altered, defaced, mutilated, or modified form, if the work is displayed, published, or reproduced as being the work of the artist, or under circumstances under which it would reasonably be regarded as being the work of the artist.