Warhol Paintings, Prince Photo At Issue In Cert Petition Over Copyright Fair Use

Mealey's (December 16, 2021, 2:53 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The owner of Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series” paintings asks the U.S. Supreme Court in a Dec. 9 petition for certiorari to clarify the standard for finding a work of art to be transformative of a copyrighted item, in the context of a fair use defense, asserting that the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in considering only a visual comparison, rather than taking a work’s meaning or message into account....