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Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. 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 fairuse of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based.
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