Photographer To High Court: Copyright Fair Use Is More Than Transformativeness

Mealey's (August 11, 2022, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A photographer tells the U.S. Supreme Court in an Aug. 8 respondent brief that the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly found that works created by Andy Warhol using a photo she took of the musician Prince were not sufficiently transformative to allow the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. (AWF) to claim fair use as a defense to copyright infringement, telling the high court that under the petitioner’s theory of transformativeness, “fair use becomes a license to steal.”...