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(Guest Post) Judicial Politics and Legal Scholarship in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith
Main Tuesday, May 23, 2023(Guest Post) Judicial Politics and Legal Scholarship in Warhol Foundation v. GoldsmithI meant it when i said I have no idea who had the better of…
Above the Fold
SCOTUS Holds Warhol’s “Prince Series” Is Not Fair Use
By Samia Young
Last week, in a 7–2 decision authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court ruled that a 1984 work by artist Andy Warhol, portraying world-renowned singer Prince against an orange background…
Simple Justice
Does SCOTUS Get Art?
Technically, the question is whether Andy Warhol’s changes to LynnGoldsmith’s photograph of Prince was fair use, or a violation of copyright. To the consternation of dissenting justice Elena Kagan, the…
SWIPLit Blog
Supreme Court Holds Specific Use of Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Not Fair Use
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. In doing so the…
Texas Law Blog
No Free Use in the Purple Rain – U.S. Supreme Court Finds License of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Infringes Photographer’s Copyright
By Jessica Engler, Biz New Orleans
When award-winning photographer Lynn Goldsmith snapped a portrait of the artist formerly known as Prince for Newsweek in 1981, she could not have predicted the cultural and legal impact the…
Louisiana Law Blog
No Free Use in the Purple Rain – U.S. Supreme Court Finds License of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Infringes Photographer’s Copyright
When award-winning photographer Lynn Goldsmith snapped a portrait of the artist formerly known as Prince for Newsweek in 1981, she could not have predicted the cultural and legal impact the…
Everything IP Under One Digital Roof
No Free Use in the Purple Rain – U.S. Supreme Court Finds License of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Infringes Photographer’s Copyright
When award-winning photographer Lynn Goldsmith snapped a portrait of the artist formerly known as Prince for Newsweek in 1981, she could not have predicted the cultural and legal impact the…
Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill Blog
Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use
By Bart Lazar
On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. The actual use of…
Incontestable Blog
SCOTUS: Fair Use Defense Fails to Protect Warhol’s Licensing of Orange Prince
By Publisher
The question presented to the U.S. Supreme Court in the copyright infringement case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, was whether the Andy Warhol Foundation for…
Russell Law Blog
US Supreme Court: Warhol Foundation’s Use of Prince Photograph Not Fair Use
In 1981 Andy Warhol used a photograph made by Lynn Goldsmith as reference for an illustration of the musician Prince. Vanity Fair magazine had hired Warhol to make the illustration;…