Copyright Fair Use

The Supreme Court held 7-2 that the Andy Warhol Foundation’s commercial licensing of Warhol’s silkscreen portrait of Prince — based on a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith — was not fair use, because the commercial licensing purpose closely tracked the photographer’s own licensing market

The Supreme Court held 6-2 that Google’s copying of approximately 11,500 lines of Java API declaring code to build the Android mobile operating system was fair use — holding that the declaring code’s function as an interoperability interface, combined with Google’s transformative u