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No Free Use in the Purple Rain – U.S. Supreme Court Finds License of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Infringes Photographer’s Copyright

By Jessica Engler on May 19, 2023

Posted in Copyrights, Intellectual Property

When award-winning photographer Lynn Goldsmith snapped a portrait of the artist formerly known as Prince for Newsweek in 1981, she could not have predicted the cultural and legal impact the pop legend’s portrait would have. In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith…

Jazz Musician Fails to Produce Evidence of Copying

By Sonny Chastain on February 25, 2021

Posted in Copyrights

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal recently addressed a copyright infringement claim by local jazz musician Paul Batiste. Batiste alleged that a hip-hop duo infringed his musical work. However, the Court concluded that Batiste had failed to produce evidence for a reasonable jury to infer that the defendants had access to his music or to…

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