Artist Andy Warhol is shown in 1976. Andy Warhol’s posters of Prince, some shaded purple and others orange, may have been works of art, but they infringed the copyright of the photographer who captured the original image of the musician, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. “Today, the court declares that Andy Warhol’s eye-popping silkscreen of Prince — a work based …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed a major copyright clash over Andy Warhol’s use of a photo of Prince, and appeared divided on how far artists may go in using the work of others. In 1984, Vanity Fair magazine hired Warhol to do a painting portraying Prince, whose career had begun to reach new heights of commercial success with the …
