ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION v. GOLDSMITH

Docket No. 19-2420-cv August Term, 2020.

11 F.4th 26 (2021)

The ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR the VISUAL ARTS, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, v. Lynn GOLDSMITH, Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., Defendants-Counter-Plaintiffs-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 26, 2021.

Amended: August 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Hentoff ( Lisa S. Blatt , Katherine Moran Meeks , on the brief), Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants.

Luke Nikas ( Maaren A. Shah , Kathryn Bonacorsi , on the brief), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Roman Martinez , Sarang Vijay Damle , Elana Nightingale Dawson , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C.; Andrew Gass , Nicholas Rosellini , Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA, additional counsel for Plaintiff-Appellee on Petition for Rehearing.

Christopher T. Bavitz , Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, Cambridge, MA, for Amici Curiae Law Professors.

Jason Schultz , Christopher Morten , New York University Technology Law and Policy Clinic, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Latipa (née Michelle Dizon) and Viêt Lê.

Ira J. Levy , Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY; Jaime A. Santos , Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Gregory J. Dubinsky , Evan H. Stein , Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Professor Terry S. Kogan.

Thomas B. Maddrey , Maddrey PLLC, Dallas, TX; Russell J. Frackman , UCLA School of Law Copyright Amicus Brief Clinic, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae The American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., National Press Photographers Association, Professional Photographers of America, Graphic Artists Guild, and North American Nature Photography Association.

Benjamin S. Akley , Donald S. Zakarin , Pryor Cashman LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Recording Industry Association of America.

Additional Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for Rehearing:

Jaime A. Santos , Andrew Kim , Goodwin Proctor LLP, Washington D.C., for Amici Curiae The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Allyson R. Bennett , Moon Hee Lee , Durie Tangri LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mark A. Lemley , Joseph C. Gratz , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Professor Amy Adler.

Rebecca Tushnet , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, for Amici Curiae 60 Intellectual Property Scholars.

Judge Jacobs concurs in the Court's opinion, and files a concurring opinion.


This case concerns a series of silkscreen prints and pencil illustrations created by the visual artist Andy Warhol based on a 1981 photograph of the musical artist Prince that was taken by Defendant-Appellant Lynn Goldsmith in her studio, and in which she holds copyright. In 1984, Goldsmith's agency, Defendant-Appellant...

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