Second Circuit Finds Andy Warhol’s Use of Prince Photograph Wasn’t All That Transformative After All Tuesday, April 6, 2021
For nearly two decades, the “transformative use test” has been a staple of fair use analysis, and particularly in the Second Circuit. The Copyright Act, however, uses the word “transformative” not in the section on fair use but in defining derivative works. The distinction is critical: fair use is a complete defense to infringement, while creation of an unauthorized derivative work is itself infringement. Courts, practitioners, and creators alike have struggled to draw the line: when is a transformative use an infringing derivative work versus fair use?
Appeals court rules against Andy Warhol in copyright case
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Perplexing the Second Circuit, a case from last summer over 25% capacity restrictions came up for oral arguments on the same day New York signed off on wedding receptions reopening at 50%.
A couple kiss wearing protective masks on the day of their wedding, April 27, 2020, at the Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park in Houston. (Marie De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)
MANHATTAN (CN) On the same day that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced wedding receptions can resume, a panel of Second Circuit judges wondered why they were hearing a case from last summer in which a wedding was canceled due to Covid-19.