§ 715B.1 Definitions
§ 715B.2 Express warranties
§ 715B.3 Falsifying certificates of authenticity or false representation — penalty
§ 715B.4 Remedies to buyer
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Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 715B - Protection of Buyers of Fine Art and Visual Art Multiples

  • art merchant: includes an auctioneer who sells such works at public auction, and except for multiples, includes persons not otherwise defined or treated as art merchants in this chapter who are consignors or principals of auctioneers. See Iowa Code 715B.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. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • 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 the work is identified in the description of the work. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • 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. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Counterfeit: means a work of fine art or multiple made, altered, or copied, with or without intent to deceive, in such a manner that it appears or is claimed to have an authorship which it does not in fact possess. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fine art: means a painting, sculpture, drawing, work of graphic art, or print, but not multiples. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • 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 a limited production to a stated maximum number of multiples, or which are otherwise held out as limited to a maximum number of multiples. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • Master: includes a printing plate, stone, block, screen, photographic negative, or other like material which contains an image used to produce visual art objects in multiples. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • multiple: means a print, photograph, positive or negative, or similar art object 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. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Print: means a multiple produced by, but not limited to, such processes as engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography, and serigraphy, a multiple produced or developed from a photographic negative, or a multiple produced or developed by any combination of such processes. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • Proof: means a multiple which is the same as, and which is produced from the same master as the multiples in a limited edition, but which, whether so designated or not, is set aside from and is in addition to the limited edition to which it relates. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • Signed: means autographed by the artist's own hand, and not by mechanical means of reproduction, and if a multiple, after the multiple was produced, whether or not the master was signed. See Iowa Code 715B.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Written instrument: means a written or printed agreement, bill of sale, invoice, certificate of authenticity, catalogue, or any other written or printed note, memorandum, or label describing the work of fine art or multiple which is to be sold, exchanged, or consigned by an art merchant. See Iowa Code 715B.1