At the time the Purple Rain rock star was just starting to take off.
In 1981 Goldsmith was commissioned to shoot a series of photos of Prince for Newsweek.
On one side of the dispute is Lynn Goldsmith, famous for photographing rock stars and whose work is on more than 100 album covers. And it is a case of enormous importance to all manner of artists. You know all those famous Andy Warhol silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor and lots of other glitterati? Now one of the most famous of these, the Prince series, is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed.Ĭollection of the Supreme Court of the United States A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference.
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