Latest SCOTUS Decision Sparks Controversy Over Prince Portraits

In 1984, Vanity Fair magazine commissioned artist Andy Warhol to create a portrait of the singer-songwriter sensation Prince. To assist Warhol in creating this art piece, the magazine paid Lynn Goldsmith, a well-known photographer in the rock-and-roll industry, $400 to license her photograph (the "Goldsmith Photograph") as an "artist reference." The Goldsmith Photograph, seen below on the left, was taken in 1981 for a Newsweek article when Prince was still an up-and-coming artist. Warhol created a series of 16 silkscreens and sketches (collectively known as the "Prince Series"), seen below on the right, by altering the Goldsmith Photograph in a variety of ways, including by cropping and colouring the photograph.