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. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. In 2016, Condé Nast acquired a license from the Warhol Foundation to use the Prince Series as illustrations for a new magazine.

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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.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

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. The magazine credited Goldsmith for the “source photograph”: 1984 Article, which had two Lynn Goldsmith attributions. Syllabus) at 4.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As part of that process, the magazine obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use as an “artists reference” for an image to be published in Vanity Fair magazine. One reason why the magazine knew to reach-out to Goldsmith was that her photos had also previously been used as magazine cover-art.

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