Supreme Court dives into pop culture with Warhol, Prince and Norman Lear
The question in the case was whether Andy Warhol's renditions of Prince were transformative under the copyright law, and thus do not infringe on photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright.
Pop culture was on full display at the U.S. Supreme Court in an oral argument Wednesday that featured Andy Warhol, Prince, and even an honorable mention for the Mona Lisa.
On one side of the dispute was noted rock-star photographer Lynn Goldsmith, whose photos are on the cover of more than 100 music albums. On the other is the Andy Warhol Foundation created after Warhol died in 1987. Goldsmith and the Foundation are suing each other, each claiming the rights to Warhol's famed series of silkscreens depicting
