Jane Ginsburg, ‘Comment on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc v Goldsmith, 992 F 3d 99 (2d Cir 2021): US Second Circuit Court of Appeals tames “transformative” fair use; rejects “celebrity-plagiarist privilege”; clarifies protectable expression in photographs’

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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc v Goldsmith, 992 F 3d 99 (2d Cir 2021). The Second Circuit reversed the SDNY’s grant of summary judgment that Andy Warhol’s silk screen adaptation of a photographic portrait of entertainer Prince was a fair use; the 2d Circuit’s decision retreats both from its prior caselaw’s generous characterization of artistic reuse as ‘transformative’, and from the outcome-determinacy of a finding of ‘transformativeness’. The court also provided an important explanation of copyrightable authorship in photographs …

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Jane C Ginsburg, Comment on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc v Goldsmith, 992 F 3d 99 (2d Cir 2021): US Second Circuit Court of Appeals tames ‘transformative’ fair use; rejects ‘celebrity-plagiarist privilege’; clarifies protectable expression in photographs, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab094. Published: 30 June 2021.

First posted 2021-07-05 11:00:37

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