IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. The lack of organisation and ambiguity make the protection problematic even if the work is copyrighted.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Following Prince’s sudden and untimely death in 2016, the Warhol Foundation, successor to the copyright in the Prince Series, licensed to Condé Nast one of the Prince Series images for use in a commemorative magazine titled The Genius of Prince , which featured on its cover the image from the Prince Series. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. The magazine issue included the credit “source photograph © 1984 by Lynn Goldsmith/LGI.”

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