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Leibovitz v. Paramount: parodying a magazine portrait

Decision date · 19 February 1998

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

A film advertisement recreated the pose and composition of Annie Leibovitz’s portrait of a pregnant Demi Moore.

The decision

The appeals court held that the advertisement made fair use of the photograph as a parody.

Source

Second Circuit · 137 F.3d 109

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