The court seems less interested now in the artistic contribution of the second work and much more interested in commercial concerns.” “I think it’s going to significantly limit the amount of borrowing and building on previous works that artists will engage in. “I think it’s a significant contraction of where the court was,” she tells Artnet’s Sarah Cascone. New York University law professor Amy Adler, who filed an amicus brief in support of the Warhol Foundation on behalf of art law professors, saw it differently. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.īoston attorney Nicholas O’Donnell told my colleague David Savage that the decision may have a limited impact since the court’s opinion “carefully avoids many of the broader questions about the limits of fair use in visual art.” (The last time the court heard a case related to fair use was in 1994.) In the majority ruling, the court stated that the two works share “substantially the same purpose and the use is commercial in nature” and that the Warhol Foundation had “no persuasive justification for its unauthorized use of the photograph.” Since then, the case has ping-ponged through the courts, landing on the Supreme Court’s docket last year. Condé Nast paid the Warhol Foundation $10,000 to license the image but did not remunerate or credit Goldsmith.Īt that point, Goldsmith registered her image for copyright and the foundation filed a preemptive suit against her, arguing that Warhol’s use of “Orange Prince” qualified as fair use since the work is transformative. Rather than using the purple portrait, they opted for another image in the series, which shows Prince rendered in orange. The problems began in 2016, when Condé Nast (Vanity Fair’s parent company) approached the Andy Warhol Foundation about licensing the image of Prince for a standalone issue on the singer, who died in April of that year. After the artist died in 1987, most of the works ended up in the hands of collectors, with a few going to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Goldsmith was paid a $400 license fee and given a published credit.Īt the time, Warhol also created 13 other silkscreens and two pencil drawings based on Goldsmith’s image (unbeknownst to Goldsmith). The newsweekly never ran the photo, but three years later, Vanity Fair licensed the image so that Warhol could use it as source material for a purple silkscreen painting of Prince that ran in the magazine. At the center of the case is a photographic portrait of Prince that Goldsmith made for Newsweek in 1981. Supreme Court ruled in favor of photographer Lynn Goldsmith in her copyright battle with the Andy Warhol Foundation. In a 7-2 decision issued this week, the U.S. Miranda, art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential art news - and Japanese omelets: Warhol vs. Just whiling away the hours ’til the next episode of “Succession” because there’s nothing like watching callow rich people subvert democracy.
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