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Generative AI and Copyright ‎Infringement: Federal Judge in Stability AI Distinguishes ‎‎Between AI Model Creators and Users – For...

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A California federal judge recently issued one of the first substantive generative AI decisions to date. In Anderson, et al., v. Stability AI Ltd. et al., 23-cv-00201-WHO (N.D. Cal. Oct. 30, 2023) (“Stability AI”),...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

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

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

Holland & Knight LLP

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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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

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

Sullivan & Worcester

Look to the Purpose, not the Meaning—Supreme Court Rejects Warhol Foundation’s Fair Use Defense Against Lynn Goldsmith

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The Supreme Court of the United States has issued its long-awaited ruling in the dispute between photographer Lynn Goldsmith and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA) on May 18, 2023. The Court held the...more

Venable LLP

The Supreme Court’s Warhol Ruling Makes Fair Use Defense Seem Even Riskier

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Last week, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited copyright fair use decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith et al. In short, the Supreme Court looked at whether it was fair use under the...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies Copyright Fair Use Defense in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

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The US Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, holding that the purpose and character of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s use of a copyrighted photograph of the...more

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Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal - Supreme Court Seemingly Narrows First Factor of Fair Use In Copyright Suit, Leaving...

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On May 18, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of “fair use” in copyright law, specifically in relation to the petitioner Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) commercial licensing of a Warhol print entitled “Orange Prince” based...more

Freeman Law

A Picture, A Painting, and A Prince: The Supreme Court Addresses the ‘Fair Use’ Doctrine

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On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 43-page majority opinion in the case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, No. 21-869, 598 U.S. Facts. The facts of the case center around...more

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Copyright Fair Use Purpose and Character: SCOTUS Says Transformation Alone Isn’t Enough

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On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling clarifying one element of the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. The 7-2 opinion came in a case involving Andy Warhol’s transformation of a photograph of...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

US Supreme Court Refocuses the Test for Transformative Use

It has been nearly thirty years since the US Supreme Court has considered whether a creative work qualifies as a transformative use under the Copyright Act. The last time was in 1994, when the Court in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose...more

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Supreme Court to Re-Examine Fair Use: Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

On March 28th, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a case involving the core issues around copyright fair use. The case involves a series of Warhol drawings and silkscreen prints adapted...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Second Circuit Finds Andy Warhol’s Use of Prince Photograph Wasn’t All That Transformative After All

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For nearly two decades, the “transformative use test” has been a staple of fair use analysis, and particularly in the Second Circuit. The Copyright Act, however, uses the word “transformative” not in the section on fair use...more

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MarkIt to Market® - March 2021: Art Imitating Art?

The Second Circuit recently decided whether artist Andy Warhol’s series of silkscreen prints and pencil illustrations titled “Prince Series” was a fair use of photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyrighted photograph of musical...more

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All the World’s a Stage, and Some Players Are De Minimis Under Copyright Law

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The out-of-doors world abounds with copyrighted works, and visual authorship is everywhere on display: giant visuals on buses, designs on T-shirts, public sculpture, caps with artsy graphics, advertising posters — and...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2018

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In This Issue - US Taxation of IP After Tax Reform - U.S. taxation of intellectual property has become astoundingly more complex after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new rules are so complex that the IRS and Treasury...more

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