art letter | no. 4. 2024 | september

Conde Nast, Warhol Orange Prince

The Supreme Court has recently upended what artists thought they knew about the line between inspiration and copying.

Late last year, in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (2023), the Court ruled that the publication by Condé Nast of one of Andy Warhol’s silk-screen prints of the rock musician Prince violated the copyright of the photographer whose photo Warhol had radically transformed. . .

 

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Read David’s Art Letter essay, Warhol and the Supreme Court: Nothing comes from nothing, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch