U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday grappled with a copyright dispute between a photographer and Andy Warhol’s estate over the acclaimed artist’s paintings of rock star Prince.
The Andy Warhol Foundation appealed a lower court’s ruling that his 1984 paintings – based on a 1981 photo of Prince that celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith shot for Newsweek magazine – were not protected by a copyright law doctrine called fair use that allows certain unlicensed use of copyright-protected works. For the rest of the article, you may see:
