Publisher Asks Supreme Court To Resolve Fair Use Issues In Picasso Photos Lawsuit

Mealey's (February 3, 2023, 8:20 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a long-running international dispute over whether a U.S. art book publisher’s photographic compilation of Picasso paintings infringes the copyrights in a catalog of those works, a publisher filed a reply brief supporting his petition for certiorari in which he asks the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify a purported circuit split on three of the Copyright Act’s fair use factors that he says the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals misinterpreted in ordering his compliance with a French copyright infringement judgment against him....