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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Despite those caveats, the opinion is likely to be enormously consequential, far more so than the Court’s similarly narrow and context-specific ruling two years ago in the Google v. Oracle software case. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. , of America v.

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With Warhol, It’s Time to Transform Transformative Use

Copyright Lately

After all, the last time the Court considered whether a creative work qualified as a “transformative” fair use under the Copyright Act was in 1994’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” case, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. The transformative use doctrine did play a role in Google v. ComicMix, LLC.