{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-25c-14","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25C-14","heading":"Disclosure requirements.","body":"(a)\tAn art dealer who sells or offers to sell a print not exempt under G.S. 25C-16, shall disclose the following information in a writing to the prospective purchaser:\n(1)\tThe name of the artist;\n(2)\tThe year the plate or negative was created;\n(3)\tThe year when the print was printed or created;\n(4)\tThe process used to create the master image;\n(5)\tThe process used to create the print;\n(6)\tWhether the print is part of a limited edition.\n(b)\tIf the print or its plate or negative is a mechanical, photomechanical or photographic copy or reproduction of a master image previously created or produced in another medium, this information shall be disclosed as part of the disclosure required by subsection (a) of this section.\n(c)\tIf the print is represented to be part of a limited edition, the disclosure required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall further state:\n(1)\tThe authorized maximum number of numbered or signed prints, or both, in the edition;\n(2)\tThe authorized maximum number of unnumbered or unsigned prints, or both, in the edition;\n(3)\tAny authorized maximum number of artist's, publisher's, printer's, or other proofs, exclusive of trial proofs, outside the regular edition;\n(4)\tThe total number of prints, either numbered or unnumbered, in the edition;\n(5)\tWhether the plate or negative has been destroyed, effaced, altered, defaced, or cancelled after the current edition;\n(6)\tIf there were any prior plates or negatives of the same master image, the total number of plates or negatives and a designation of the plate or negative from which the print was taken;\n(7)\tIf there were any prior or later editions from the same plate or negative, the series number of the edition of which the print is a part, and the aggregate size of all other editions;\n(8)\tWhether the print was published as a book illustration or in a magazine article;\n(9)\tWhether the edition is a posthumous edition or a restrike, and, if it is, whether the plate has been reworked;\n(10)\tThe name of any workshop where the edition was printed; and\n(11)\tWhether the print has been printed on acid-free paper.\n(d)\tWhenever an art dealer disclaims knowledge as to a particular item about which information is required, such disclaimer shall be clearly and conspicuously stated in unqualified terms as to each of those items of information required by this section and shall be contained in writing in the physical context of other language setting forth the required information to be disclosed under this section. (1989, c. 464, s. 1.)","path":["Chapter 25C. Sales of Artwork.","Article 2. Sale of Prints."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_25C/GS_25C-14.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:59:02Z","sha256":"ef8b6bd8c0dd99815871232678f24b3c75b8a85d6b73e3a73cd8e192918a9468","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-25c-13","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-25c-15"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}