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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.” Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph.

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Stop, thief! How to win big in a copyright infringement case

Art Law Journal

Actual damages represent the money that would have been received if the artist had sold or licensed it to the infringer. To illustrate this concept, let’s continue with the infringement scenario discussed earlier. Your fee for licensing work to a blog is $400, so the actual damage is the loss of that licensing fee.