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

LexBlog IP

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] Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph. He did just that.

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"Aren’t we still, basically, in the dark?" (UPDATED 3X)

The Art Law Blog

That's how I ended my post on the Second Circuit's Prince-Cariou decision, back in 2013. One was that " this Judge saw this particular use as transformative. On this reading, there's still no way to have any confidence about how any given fair use case will be decided." More commentary as it comes in.

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Warhol and Prince: Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists…Litigate

LexBlog IP

adopting that posture of indifference, the majority does something novel (though in law, unlike in art, it is rarely a good thing to be transformative).” The decision has been both decried as an assault on the future of art and hailed as a major vindication for photographers. ’” Take that. Prince , 714 F.3d