LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Vanity Fair commissioned Andy Warhol to create a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s image and used Warhol’s piece in the magazine with attribution as promised. However, Andy Warhol would go on to create 15 additional works using the Goldsmith photograph, now known as the artist’s “Prince Series.”

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Money and copyright won by a 7-2 majority. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. Goldsmith notified AWF of her belief that the work infringed her copyright. Andy Warhol.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. Although this landmark copyright decision is hot off the presses, the facts date back to 1981 when the underlying photograph was first shot. § 107 ). § 107 ).

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. Both are portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince. Goldsmith , 598 S. 1258, (2023).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement. Does Trump have a claim, or is his copyright claim “trumped up”? So there’s no stories coming out, okay.

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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”). Vanity Fair engaged Andy Warhol to create an illustration based on Goldsmith’s photograph for use in the magazine.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vanity Fair (magazine) took a license to use and modify the image for its magazine and hired Warhol to use his artistic talents to develop a new image. Goldsmith realized what had happened—that Warhol had made over a dozen works based on her photograph, the majority of which had not been licensed. federal copyright law)?

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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. Goldsmith alleged copyright infringement after seeing Orange Prince in Condé Nast’s article. of a commercial nature.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. In 1984, Goldsmith gave Vanity Fair permission to use the photograph in a new commissioned purple silkscreen portrait by Warhol that appeared in the magazine’s November issue.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement. The Court in Campbell emphasized that transformative fair uses leave “breathing space” for next generation creations that build on the expression of pre-existing works.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. In 1984, Goldsmith gave Vanity Fair permission to use the photograph in a new commissioned purple silkscreen portrait by Warhol that appeared in the magazine’s November issue.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. ” (S. See Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith , 598 S. 1258, (2023). ” See 143 S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Counterclaim alleged that WF infringed by reproducing, publicly displaying, commercially licensing, and distributing the image, and by incorporating the photo into unauthorized derivative works. It is nonsensical to analyze fair use as a defense to something that is not copyright infringement to begin with.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

They do this to create works of fiction expressing the writers’ truths by using, altering, extending, or supplementing others’ reality, and sometimes even use what others have written about their own experiences. The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

A detailed analysis of Goldsmith , however, yields little comfort to content owners when assessing the applicability of fair use to non-expressive uses of copyrightable content for use in AI learning models. Both are portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince. Goldsmith , 598 S. 1258, (2023).

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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] Originals” [7] : The Works at Issue. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. Controversy” [8] : The Litigation.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik and tattoo artist Kat Von D each claim that the Supreme Court’s Warhol decision entitles them to summary judgment in their long-running copyright dispute. Goldsmith on a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit involving celebrity tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D).

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