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Andy Warhol, Prince, and the First Amendment: U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of Questions Concerning “Fair Use” Under Copyright Act

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APRIL 18, 2022

Vanity Fair licensed one of Goldsmith’s Prince photographs to use in a Vanity Fair article. When Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair’s parent company sought permission from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. In 1984, Prince released Purple Rain and his popularity exploded.

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” In 1981, Goldsmith, who was then a portrait photographer for Newsweek , took a series of photographs of the then-up-and-coming musician Prince. He did just that.

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Andy Warhol, Prince, and the First Amendment: U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of Questions Concerning “Fair Use” Under Copyright Act

Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

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