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Supreme Court versus Warhol foundation: copyright fight over Prince photo lost (nbcnews.com)
1 point by fluxinflex on May 19, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> The court concluded in a ruling authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that the works made by Warhol did not have a sufficiently different commercial purpose from that of the original photo taken by Goldsmith: Both are used to illustrate magazine articles about Prince.

> "Because the artist had such a commercial purpose, all the creativity in the world could not save him," she wrote. The ruling will cramp artists and creativity, because any artwork that uses existing materials is in danger of violating copyright law, Kagan wrote.

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