In Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, the Supreme Court held, in a 7-2 decision, that the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWF) infringed photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright when it...more
11/8/2023
/ Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc v Goldsmith ,
Artists ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Fair Use ,
Fine Art ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Photographs ,
Prince ,
SCOTUS ,
Subjective Standard ,
Transformative Use
In Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., the Supreme Court, in a 6–2 decision2 written by Justice Breyer, held that Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) naming convention was a fair use as a...more
In Craft Smith, LLC v. EC Design, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, ruled that a knockoff version of a personal organizer did not infringe the original organizer’s overall design. The court also concluded that...more
G&M Realty (G&M), the owner of the famous New York City graffiti space known as 5Pointz, asked the Supreme Court to strike down as unconstitutional the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), a federal copyright law that provides...more
8/7/2020
/ Art ,
Artistic Works ,
Artists ,
Commercial Property Owners ,
Copyright ,
Due Process ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Graffiti ,
Paintings Sculptures and Engravings ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Property Owners ,
Statutory Damages ,
Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA)
In Allen v. Cooper, the Supreme Court held that the copyright clause in the U.S. Constitution did not authorize Congress to abrogate states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity from copyright infringement. In addition, Congress’s...more
In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc., in a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court held that an annotated version of Georgia’s official state law code was not copyrightable and rejected a claim for copyright infringement that Georgia...more
5/18/2020
/ Annotated Case Law ,
Appeals ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyrightable Subject Matter ,
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc ,
Government Edicts Doctrine ,
Legislative Duties ,
Reaffirmation ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Code ,
The Copyright Act