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

LexBlog IP

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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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

If I had to guess, I would estimate that at least half of the people reading this article don’t know why those two statements are wrong. Copyright is the type of Intellectual Property most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. We’ll get back to these statements later.). Utility Patents.

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

If I had to guess, I would estimate that at least half of the people reading this article don’t know why those two statements are wrong. Copyright is the type of IP most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Copyright only protects: original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium.