The Artists Authorship Rights Act is a 1984 New York law that provides legal protection for artists'

moral rights Moral rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions. The moral rights include the right of attribution, the right to have a work pu ...

. The law was in part a reaction to California's passage of the California Art Preservation Act, however the New York Act provided for artists the right to disavow works that were altered against their wishes. The Act was preempted by the similar federal

Visual Artists Rights Act The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), ( title VI, ), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists. VARA was the first federal United States Copyright law, copyright legislation to grant protection to ''moral rights (copyright ...

of 1990 (VARA), as held in Board of Managers of Soho Int'l Arts Condominium v. City of New York (S.D.N.Y. 2003). Although preempted, it remains part of New York law.

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