2A:24A-3. Definitions

2A:24A-3. Definitions
As used in this act:

a. "Artist" means the creator of a work of fine art;

b. "Conservation" means acts taken to correct deterioration and alteration or acts taken to prevent, stop or retard deterioration;

c. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or other group, however organized;

d. "Reproduction" means a copy, in any medium, of a work of fine art that is displayed or published under circumstances which, reasonably construed, evince an intent that it be taken as a representation of a work of fine art as created by the artist; and

e. "Work of fine art" means any original work of visual or graphic art in any medium, which includes, but is not limited to, paintings, drawings, prints, and photographic prints or sculptures of a limited edition of no more than 300 copies; provided, however, that a work of fine art shall not include sequential imagery as in motion pictures.

L. 1986, c. 97, s. 3, eff. Aug. 27, 1986.

2A:24A-4. Display in altered form
No person other than the artist, or a person acting with the artist's consent, shall knowingly display in a place accessible to the public a work of fine art of that artist in an altered, defaced, mutilated or modified form, if damage to the artist's reputation is reasonably likely to result and if the work is displayed as being the work of the artist. No person other than the artist, or a person acting with the artist's consent, shall either knowingly publish or reproduce a work of fine art of that artist in an altered, defaced, mutilated or modified form, if damage to the artist's reputation is reasonably likely to result and if the work is published or reproduced as being the work of the artist by use of the artist's name in conjunction with the reproduction or publication.

L. 1986, c. 97, s. 4, eff. Aug. 27, 1986.