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Second Circuit Holds That the Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Book Lending Is Not a Fair Use Under Copyright Law, a Major...

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital...more

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Plaintiffs Benefit From SCOTUS Ruling There Is No Time Bar for Copyright Damages

Many companies are not strangers to receiving demand letters on behalf of copyright owners. Routine demand letters often allege that the company’s use of what it believed was a stock photo, public domain image, or music on...more

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Unpacking Fair Use: A Legal Battle Between Sculptors and Photographers in the NFL

Earlier this year, a rare case of copyright infringement was brought against the National Football League (NFL) and the Detroit Lions over a statue of Hall of Fame player Barry Sanders. The case, filed in January in New York...more

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Circuit Court Applies Warhol v. Goldsmith’s Updated “Transformative” Use Analysis in “Tiger King” Fair Use Suit

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The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a federal district court's determination that Netflix made fair use of the plaintiff's video in the 2020 Netflix show “Tiger King,” citing last year’s US...more

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New York Times vs. OpenAI: Fair Use Fight with Billions at Stake

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On the third day of Christmas, Microsoft Corp. (“Microsoft”) and OpenAI, Inc. (together with its named affiliates, “OpenAI”) didn’t get any French hens: Instead, the software giant and leading artificial intelligence research...more

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Generative Artificial Intelligence: Calling for a New Legal Front

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New York Times Copyright Suit and Key Facts - On December 27, 2023, The New York Times Company (“NYT”) filed a Complaint in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) and several OpenAI...more

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Podcast: The Briefing - Court Rejects Post-Warhol Fair Use Defense in Photographer’s Copyright Lawsuit

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A photographer is suing a real estate media site for copyright infringement after publishing several of his photos without permission. Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg discuss this case and explain how media companies can...more

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Copyright Fair Use Examples

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Things That Can Be Subject to Copyright Protection (Original Works of Authorship, Fixed in a Tangible Medium of Expression). Photograph - Images - Illustrations - Paintings...more

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What the Supreme Court's Decision in Warhol Could Mean for the Future of Fair Use - Katten Kattwalk | Issue 25

In a case that pitted Andy Warhol’s legacy foundation against rock portraitist Lynn Goldsmith, Supreme Court Justices Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan split on an issue central to the ideals of copyright law: how the law...more

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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Holds That First Factor of Fair Use Test Favors Photographer

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In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith held that pop artist Andy Warhol's use of a photograph of late music legend and cultural icon Prince without...more

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How Will Use of Copyrighted Content in Artificial Intelligence Be Evaluated After the Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision?

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith is unlikely to shed much light on whether the use of copyrighted material in artificial intelligence (AI) content will...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Underscores Objective Analysis over Artistic Interpretation in Copyright Fair Use

On May 18, in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, the U.S. Supreme Court considered which “use” of a derivative work is relevant for applying the first statutory factor of the fair-use doctrine. The...more

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Supreme Court Affirms Andy Warhol’s Prince Series Not Transformative Fair Use

On May 18th, the Supreme Court handed down its much‑anticipated opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. We’ve tracked the progress of this case through the trial court, Second Circuit, and...more

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Supreme Court Weakens Fair-Use Defense for Copyright Infringement Claims

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On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first decision this century on copyright fair use in the artistic context. Andy Warhol Found. for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 143 S. Ct. 1258 (2023). The 7-2...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Warhol Case Likely to ‘Diminish but Not Eliminate’ Creative Use of Previous Artworks

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a copyright dispute over a portrait of Prince that Warhol created using a photograph by another artist, Lynn Goldsmith. "The court's opinion...more

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Client Alert: Putting the “Use” Back in Fair Use: The Supreme Court Decides Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v....

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The Supreme Court’s recent and much-anticipated decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith redefines the contours of the fair use defense to copyright infringement. The Court ruled in favor of...more

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

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The House IP Subcommittee’s “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part I—Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law” hearing has two former General Counsels of the US Copyright Office squaring off over whether...more

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Supreme Court’s 2023 Copyright Fair Use Decision is Not a One-Hit Wonder

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The fair use defense to copyright infringement has been remastered by the Supreme Court—at least the first factor. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith holds that the defense does not...more

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Patent Poetry: Supreme Court Rules on “Fair Use” in Warhol Copyright Case

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The US Supreme Court has issued its decision in the important copyright law case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith et al....more

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Andy Warhol Foundation vs. Goldsmith: A Transformative Opinion or Much Ado About Nothing?

Over the past several weeks there has been much commentary regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation ("AWF") v. Goldsmith. The facts of the case date back to the early 1980s when Vanity Fair...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Andy Warhol At The Supreme Court: For Fair Use, Context Matters

​Ever since Marcel Duchamp put a urinal on the wall of an art gallery and titled it “Fountain,” we have known that context matters in the art world. From the “found object” art movement to Andy Warhol’s prints of the iconic...more

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Supreme Court Finds Warhol’s Commercial Licensing of “Orange Prince” to Vanity Fair Is Not Fair Use and Infringes Goldsmith’s...

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s (AWF), in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use...more

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Fair Use and Warhol’s Prince Silkscreens

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Last week, the Supreme Court decided an important copyright case on the question of fair use in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 2023 WL 3511534....more

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