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How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s series of colorful prints and drawings of Prince were not transformative fair uses of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph (for a previous comment on this case, see here ). Hence, the Foundation’s use was non-transformative. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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SCOTUS: Fair Use Defense Fails to Protect Warhol’s Licensing of Orange Prince

LexBlog IP

AWF)’s decision to license one of Warhol’s Prince Series images—a set of silkscreen prints authored by Andy Warhol and derived from Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the singer-songwriter, Prince—constituted “fair use.” in a museum) would be fair use. § 107(1).

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The Art Critic’s Role in Fair Use

Patently-O

Apparently Vanity Fair commissioned Warhol to make an illustration for its 1984 article on Prince. As part of that process, VF obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use “as an artist’s reference in connection with an article to be published in Vanity Fair Magazine.” 17 U.S.C. §

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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

Fischer denied both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues of substantial similarity and fair use. Among other things, the court held that there was a factual dispute as to whether or not defendants’ purpose in using Sedlik’s image of Miles Davis was “commercial.”

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SCOTUS Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Portraits Are Not Fair Use

The IP Law Blog

Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the majority, noted that both the original photograph and Warhol’s “Orange Prince” were portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about him.

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Supreme Court Holds Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Not Transformative, Not Fair Use

IP Tech Blog

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith, Andy Warhol not only used Ms. Goldsmith et al, Case No.