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Blanch v. Koons: a fashion photograph in a collage

Decision date · 26 October 2006

Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York.
Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York. Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

Koons adapted part of Andrea Blanch’s fashion photograph for his painting Niagara.

The decision

The court held that the use was fair, emphasizing the different purpose of the borrowed material in the painting.

Source

Second Circuit · 467 F.3d 244

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