IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

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 et al, Case No. Unbeknownst to Ms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Orbison song could be fair use because it transformed the original song by adding something new, with a different purpose, or a new meaning or message. have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit ruled that the use of Lynn Goldsmith’s 1981 photograph was not fair use by Andy Warhol’s image of a musical artist. Favoring the AWF, the district court granted summary judgment to AWF for its claim of fair use, and the counterclaim of Goldsmith and LDL was dismissed.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 26, 2023

The Court held the AWFVA’s delivery to Condé Nast magazine in 2016 of an Andy Warhol silkscreen from 1984 based on a 1981 Goldsmith photograph of the musician Prince did not satisfy the first factor (of four) of the statutory fair use elements. The Court took a narrow approach, explicitly declining.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

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.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Goldsmith , Opinion located here , the estate of deceased pop artist Andy Warhol argued its use of the photo at issue was fair use under the first of the four Fair Use test factors (the “purpose and character of the use”), because Warhol’s contributions were transformative, adding new expression, meaning, or message.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

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. The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use.

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WIPO Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The decision upheld the claim by the celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, that the Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) had infringed her copyright in a photo of the late entertainer Prince, when, after Prince’s death in 2016, the Foundation licensed an illustration by Andy Warhol based on that photo, to Vanity Fair for a cover.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2022

Supreme Court recently granted a petition for writ of certiorari (docket, here ) to review the extent to which a work of art is a “transformative” fair use under the Copyright Act. When Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair’s parent company sought permission from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

1: Justices to Consider Whether Warhol Image is “Fair Use” of Photograph of Prince. Goldsmith, a case that is expected to be a rare moment of the high court ruling on an issue of fair use. Goldsmith sued, saying that this use far exceeded the agreement that they made. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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JD Supra Law

JULY 13, 2023

In May, the Supreme Court issued an unusually contentious 7-2 decision concerning the fair use defense available to alleged copyright infringers. The majority decision in The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The concept of CDL revolves around the idea of two major doctrines under Copyright law i.e. Doctrine of fair use and doctrine of exhaustion. Doctrine of fair use The concept of CDL has not been per se recognized under Copyright Act, 1957 (“ Act ”). One needs to see on what principles libraries can justify CDL.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2021

back in 2016. Ratajkowski fired back, claiming that the photo didn’t qualify for copyright protection and that her use was a fair use. However, the judge also ruled it was too early to weigh in on questions of fair use and related issues.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

On May 17th, 2023, the Supreme Court handed down a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences in the evolving landscape of copyright fair use, particularly for commercial works that reproduce copyrighted work.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

In its Answer, Chegg asserts multiple defenses, including that “any use of Pearson’s asserted copyrighted works by or through Chegg’s services constitutes fair use.” Chegg does not provide further details to support its fair use claim.Chegg also asserted the equitable estoppel doctrine.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. ” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. .” Campbell v.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. 1258, (2023).

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 1984, Lynn licensed one of her photographs of the musician Prince to be converted into a painting by Warhol for Vanity Fair magazine. However, after Prince died in 2016, it was revealed that Warhol actually made an additional 14 prints using the photograph. Lynn sued allegiging that those prints were a copyright infringement.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Warhol, however, did not stop with that one modified image; instead, he developed a series of sixteen different versions using the Goldsmith photograph, none of which was covered by the Vanity Fair license. First, there are not that many Supreme Court cases that address fair use. The case is important for several reasons.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair licensed one of her black-and-white studio portraits for $400 and commissioned Warhol to create a piece for a feature of Prince. He used a cropped photo based on one of Goldsmith’s images to create his artwork. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. Three years later, she licensed one of those photos of Vanity Fair who, with permission, commissioned a new work based on it by Andy Warhol. Bottom Line.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

However, Andy Warhol would go on to create 15 additional works using the Goldsmith photograph, now known as the artist’s “Prince Series.” 1] The Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to AWF on its claim of fair use, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the India- EFTA TEPA, AP High Court’s curious findings on fair use, and Delhi High Court’s order imposing INR 1 lakh as damages on Google for failing to disclose information about their corresponding foreign applications. Read on to learn more.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). In response, AWF sued Goldsmith, seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement, or alternatively, fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. was entitled to a declaration that Warhol’s “Prince Series” did not infringe Goldsmith’s photo. 19-2420-cv.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. was entitled to a declaration that Warhol’s “Prince Series” did not infringe Goldsmith’s photo. 19-2420-cv.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Though Goldsmith had licensed one of the images to be used, Warhol made an entire series based on her work, and that only became knowledge after Prince’s death in 2016. However, the lower court ruled against Goldsmith, saying that Warhol made a fair use of her work.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. . § was released.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Wilder alleged that Hoiland had used course materials created by Wilder for a faculty development program, Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE), in five slides of a presentation Hoiland gave at the Community College Conference on Learning Assessment (CCCLA).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Outside of consent from the original work’s author, the best legal defense for appropriation art is the doctrine of fair use. These additional pieces would only come to Goldsmith’s attention after Prince’s death in 2016. The circuit court also stated that judges are ill-suited to engage in artistic evaluation.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 10, 2022

Goldsmith , the Court aims to more clearly define the scope of what’s known as “fair use” in US copyright law. This marks the Supreme Court’s second foray into copyright fair use in two years after decades of silence on the matter. Understanding the Fair Use Doctrine.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] In 2016, Vanity Fair licensed Orange Prince from AWF for the cover of their commemorative issue about Prince.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. The legal question at the center of the dispute is whether Warhol’s series is fair use of Goldsmith’s original photograph. The trial judge John G.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In a separate but parallel development, the United States Supreme Court recently settled a protracted legal battle originating in 2016 between photographer Lynn Goldsmith and the Andy Warhol Foundation. The dispute revolved around a work of art created by Warhol, which incorporated a photograph of the musician Prince.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use.

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