On October 12, the US Supreme Court will hear a crucial copyright case involving photographer Lynn Goldsmith and late painter Andy Warhol. The judgement will shape the future of what we know as 'fair use'
Andy Warhol is known as one of the giants of Pop Art. The American artist, who died in 1987, left behind a legacy of paintings that made use of images that the public encountered on a daily basis transformed into larger-than-life icons, such as the Campbell Soup can, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and, yes, Prince.magazine licensed a photograph of Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as the musician Prince, to be used as a reference image for an artwork.
The photograph was taken in 1981, before the singer-songwriter had risen to the heights of fame, by musician and photographer Lynn Goldsmith forin 1984, and the magazine commissioned Andy Warhol to produce artwork based on Goldsmith's photo of Prince, around the time “Purple Rain” was storming the charts.
Warhol made a series of silk screens off of Goldsmith’s photo, 16 in total, but only one was used in theYears later in 2016, when Prince died,wanted to run the Warhol image again, and found out that there were more images than the original one that they had used in 1984. So they picked a different image and used it,
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