![]() “The humanity Prince embodies in Goldsmith’s photograph is gone,” Judge Koeltl wrote. Goldsmith’s photograph “from a vulnerable, uncomfortable person to an iconic, larger-than-life figure.” Koeltl of the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which holds Warhol’s own copyrights in the images, saying that the artist had transformed the musician depicted in Ms. The Supreme Court has said that a work is transformative if it “adds something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the first with new expression, meaning or message.” ![]() Goldsmith’s photograph, a question that figures in the fair-use analysis. Litigation followed, much of it focused on whether Warhol had transformed Ms. Goldsmith to the existence of the other works. When Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair published a special issue celebrating his life and used one of those images, alerting Ms. The image accompanied an article titled “Purple Fame” and appeared around the time of Prince’s album “Purple Rain.”īefore Warhol died in 1987, he created 15 other images of Prince drawing on the same photograph.
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