Supreme Court's Warhol decision criticized by Justice Kagan for stifling creativity.

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Supreme Court's Warhol decision criticized by Justice Kagan for stifling creativity.
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In a dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan accused her colleagues of hypocrisy and stifling creativity in a Supreme Court ruling against artists in a copyright case featuring a Prince portrait by Andy Warhol. The Court ruled 7-2 against the Andy Warhol Foundation, determining that the iconic artist had infringed on Lynn Goldsmith's copyright of her portrait of Prince by creating an orange silk screen print of the photo. Kagan argued that the ruling would stifle creativity of every sort and make our world poorer.

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