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New Federal Law Helps Victims of Nazi-Confiscated Art
The HEAR Act of 2025 creates a sea change in restitution litigation. American soldiers carry art looted by the Nazis from conquered countries. On April 13, 2024, President Trump signed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025 (the HEAR Act of 2025) into law.
Congress Advances Updates to the HEAR Act of 2016
In December 2025, the Senate unanimously passed the HEAR Act of 2025, a bill intended to clarify the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (the HEAR Act). In 2016, President Obama signed the HEAR Act, which imposed a nationwide, 6-year statute of limitations for cases involving Nazi-confiscated art.1 The 6-year clock begins to run when a claimant acquires “actual knowledge” of the artwork’s identity and location and of their possessory interest in it.
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Spotlight: art transactions in USA
All questions Art transactions i Private sales and auctions As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, which began at the start of 2020, the art market, like almost all other commercial activity, was disrupted. As a result, several cases have been brought by businesses against their insurance companies to recover for resulting business losses.
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The Art Law Review
Lawrence M. Kaye, Howard N. Spiegler, Yaél M. Weitz and Gabrielle C. Wilson Kaye Spiegler PLLC 11 January 2022 Introduction The US art market is diverse in its composition, with stakeholders that include art dealers and galleries, advisers and appraisers, auction houses, museums, private collectors, foundations and artists.
Snapshot: buying and selling art in USA | Lexology
Buying and selling Passing of title When does ownership of art, antiques and collectibles pass from seller to buyer? The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which has been adopted in some form by every state in the United States, is a collection of laws governing commercial transactions in the country. Sales of tangible personal property, such as fine art, are governed by article 2 of the UCC.
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