Intellectual Property Law

New Matter FALL 2023, VOLUME 48, EDITION 3

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS V. GOLDSMITH: Expanding the Degree of Similarity1—Trimming Transformative Use

Alexandra Darraby

Art Law Firm

PROCEDURAL SUMMARY OF ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. V. GOLDSMITH

Justice Sotomayor delivered the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith [Warhol], Justices Gorsuch and Jackson concurred, and Justices Kagan and Roberts dissented.2 The Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s judgment that the Foundation’s use of a 1981 photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith was not fair under Section 107 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code.3 Both the Foundation and Goldsmith licensed the photograph—her copyrighted original and the Foundation’s unauthorized image from the Prince Series—for magazine covers posthumously memorializing the musician’s life and career.4

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