Goldsmith filed a counterclaim a few months later arguing his work isn’t “transformative” and in the digital world “anyone can easily modify a photograph on a computer to add high contrast, coloration and artifacts.” He cropped Goldsmith’s photo and created a series of 16 images that “comment on the manner in which society encounters and consumes celebrity.”Ĭompelling Pictures Books Marina Studios for Whitney Houston Biopic, Film Slate Shoots (Exclusive) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in April 2017 sued photographer Lynn Goldsmith and asked the court for a declaration that his 1984 paintings of Prince don’t violate her copyright in the photo that inspired them because his works were “entirely new creations.” Vanity Fair in 1984 had commissioned Warhol to create an image of Prince. When Andy Warhol used existing photographs as inspiration for his iconic pop art, was he transforming the works enough for it to be a fair use of the underlying images? That question has been working its way through the federal courts for more than three years - and now the artist’s estate is asking the U.S.
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