Supreme Court Takes on Copyright Infringement Case Involving Prince, Andy Warhol
A photographer who claims her intellectual property rights were violated by Andy Warhol’s eponymous foundation when it published multiple stylized prints he made based on her photo of the iconic musician Prince, urged the Supreme Court on Oct. 12 to make the foundation pay up.
Warhol, a painter, print-maker, and multimedia artist, died in 1987 at age 58. Prince, who was born Prince Rogers Nelson, died in 2016 at 57.
The Supreme Court’s decision in the case could have wide ramifications for cultural industries including movie-making and other businesses such as computer programming.
Under the fair use legal doctrine, copyrighted material may be used in a limited way without the prior consent of the copyright holder….