In a Supreme Court filing, the Biden administration sided with a photographer who claims her intellectual property rights were violated by Andy Warhol’s eponymous foundation when it published multiple stylized prints he made based on her photo of the iconic musician Prince.
Warhol, a painter, print-maker, and multimedia artist, died in 1987 at age 58. Prince, who was born Prince Rogers Nelson, died in 2016 at 57.
Supporters of the foundation say if it loses in the Supreme Court, free expression by artists would be chilled because they would not be able to come up with new expressions based on existing works. The government counters that the high court should not create what amounts to a “celebrity-plagiarist” exception to fair use by siding with the foundation….