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Who’s Your Daddy? Supreme Court Sits in Judgement on Fair Use

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Filed under: Art Pranks, Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Legal Issues, The Future of Pranks

Fair Use is at the Supreme Court with potentially huge transformative consequences to artists on both sides of the issue.


The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity, Nina Totenberg, NPR’s All Things Considered, October 12, 2022

You know all those famous Andy Warhol silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor and lots of other glitterati? Now one of the most famous of these, the Prince series, is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine… And it is a case of enormous importance to all manner of artists. Read the whole article here.

AP Cries Foul Against Shepard Fairey. What Would Warhol Say?

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OBAMA POSTER

AP self-reports on this story:
AP countersues artist over famous Obama image, by Jennifer Peltz, AP, March 11, 2009


Or, watch the AP video report: