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US Supreme Court rules on the licensing of Warhol’s Prince portrait

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US Supreme Court rules on the licensing of Warhol’s Prince portrait
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The court held that the first fair-use factor favored photographer Lynn Goldsmith for the Warhol Foundation’s specific 2016 commercial license of Orange Prince to Condé Nast. Image shows Goldsmith’s photograph and Warhol’s adaptation, reproduced in court filings.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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