2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title C - Transactions Involving Artists and Their Works › Article 11 - Definitions › 11.01 - Definitions.

§ 11.01. Definitions. As used in this title:
1. "Artist" means the creator of a work of fine art or, in the case of
  multiples,  the  person  who  conceived  or  created  the image which is
  contained in or which constitutes the master from which  the  individual
  print was made.
2.  "Art  merchant"  means a person who is in the business of dealing,
  exclusively or non-exclusively, in works of fine art or multiples, or  a
  person  who  by  his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or
  skill peculiar to such works, or to whom such knowledge or skill may  be
  attributed  by  his  employment of an agent or other intermediary who by
  his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or skill.  The
  term  "art  merchant"  includes  an  auctioneer  who sells such works at
  public auction, and except in the case of multiples,  includes  persons,
  not  otherwise  defined  or  treated  as  art  merchants herein, who are
  consignors or principals of auctioneers.
3. "Author" or "authorship" refers to the creator of a  work  of  fine
  art or multiple or to the period, culture, source or origin, as the case
  may  be,  with  which  the  creation  of  such work is identified in the
  description of the work.
4. "Creditors" means "creditor" as defined in  paragraph  thirteen  of
  subsection (b) of section 1--201 of the uniform commercial code.
5. "Counterfeit" means a work of fine art or multiple made, altered or
  copied,  with  or  without  intent  to  deceive,  in such manner that it
  appears or is claimed to have an authorship which it does  not  in  fact
  possess.
6.  "Certificate  of authenticity" means a written statement by an art
  merchant confirming, approving or attesting to the authorship of a  work
  of fine art or multiple, which is capable of being used to the advantage
  or disadvantage of some person.
7.  "Conservation"  means  acts  taken  to  correct  deterioration and
  alteration and acts taken to prevent, stop or retard deterioration.
8. "Craft" means a  functional  or  non-functional  work  individually
  designed,  and  crafted by hand, in any medium including but not limited
  to textile, tile, paper, clay, glass, fiber,  wood,  metal  or  plastic;
  provided,  however,  that  if  produced  in  multiples,  craft shall not
  include works mass produced or produced in other than a limited edition.
9. "Fine art" means a painting, sculpture, drawing, or work of graphic
  art, and print, but not multiples.
10. "Limited edition" means works of art produced from a  master,  all
  of which are the same image and bear numbers or other markings to denote
  the  limited production thereof to a stated maximum number of multiples,
  or are otherwise held out as limited to a maximum number of multiples.
11. "Master" when used alone is used in lieu of and means the same  as
  such  things  as  printing  plate,  stone,  block,  screen, photographic
  negative or other like material which contains an image used to  produce
  visual  art  objects in multiples, or in the case of sculptures, a mold,
  model, cast, form or other  prototype,  other  than  from  glass,  which
  additional multiples of sculpture are produced, fabricated or carved.
12.  "On  consignment"  means that no title to, estate in, or right to
  possession of, the work of fine art or multiple that is superior to that
  of the consignor vests in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee's
  power or authority to transfer  or  convey  all  the  right,  title  and
  interest of the consignor, in and to such work, to a third person.
13.   "Person"   means   an   individual,   partnership,  corporation,
  association or other group, however organized.
14. "Print" in addition to meaning a multiple  produced  by,  but  not
  limited   to,   such   processes  as  engraving,  etching,  woodcutting,

  lithography and serigraphy, also means multiples produced  or  developed
  from photographic negatives, or any combination thereof.
15.  "Proofs"  means  multiples  which  are the same as, and which are
  produced from the same masters as, the multiples in a  limited  edition,
  but  which,  whether so designated or not, are set aside from and are in
  addition to the limited edition to which they relate.
16. "Reproduction" means a copy, in any medium, of a work of fine art,
  that is displayed or  published  under  circumstances  that,  reasonably
  construed,  evinces  an intent that it be taken as a representation of a
  work of fine art as created by the artist.
17.  "Reproduction  right"  means  a  right  to   reproduce,   prepare
  derivative  works of, distribute copies of, publicly perform or publicly
  display a work of fine art.
18. "Sculpture" means a three-dimensional fine  art  object  produced,
  fabricated or carved in multiple from a mold, model, cast, form or other
  prototype,  other  than  from glass, sold, offered for sale or consigned
  in, into or from this state for an amount in excess of  fifteen  hundred
  dollars.
19.  "Signed"  means  autographed by the artist's own hand, and not by
  mechanical means of  reproduction,  after  the  multiple  was  produced,
  whether or not the master was signed or unsigned.
20.  "Successor  in  interest" shall mean a "personal representative",
  "testamentary beneficiary", trustee or beneficiary of a "lifetime trust"
  or an "heir" (including heirs who acquire the work of fine art, craft or
  print  from  the  artist  or  craftsperson  or  from  another  heir   or
  beneficiary  of  the artist or craftsperson), which terms shall have the
  same meanings as set forth in the estates, powers and trusts law.
21. "Visual art multiples" or "multiples" means  prints,  photographs,
  positive or negative, sculpture and similar art objects produced in more
  than  one  copy and sold, offered for sale or consigned in, into or from
  this state for an amount in excess of one hundred dollars  exclusive  of
  any  frame  or  in the case of sculpture, an amount in excess of fifteen
  hundred dollars. Pages or sheets taken  from  books  and  magazines  and
  offered  for  sale  or sold as visual art objects shall be included, but
  books and magazines are excluded.
22. "Written instrument" means a written or printed agreement, bill of
  sale, invoice, certificate  of  authenticity,  catalogue  or  any  other
  written  or  printed  note or memorandum or label describing the work of
  fine art or multiple which is to be sold, exchanged or consigned  by  an
  art merchant.