The Impact of the Supreme Court's Warhol Ruling on Art.
The Supreme Court ruled that Andy Warhol's "Prince Series" is not transformative enough to count as "fair use" of Lynn Goldsmith's photograph of Prince. Justice Elena Kagan passionately dissented, warning that the ruling will stifle creativity. However, the art world may be on the Court's side, as anti-appropriation is a common theme these days. The renewed obsession with copyright and proprietary notions about art comes at a time of deep artistic insecurity, with AI creating images daily based on tens of millions of "remembered" images.