CARIOU v. PRINCE

Docket No. 11-1197-cv.

714 F.3d 694 (2013)

Patrick CARIOU, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard PRINCE, Defendant-Appellant, Gagosian Gallery, Inc., Lawrence Gagosian, Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 25, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua I. Schiller ( Jonathan D. Schiller , George F. Carpinello , on the brief), Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Richard Prince.

Hollis Anne Gonerka Bart , Chaya Weinberg-Brodt , Dara G. Hammerman , Azmina N. Jasani , Withers Bergman LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Gagosian Gallery, Inc. and Lawrence Gagosian.

Daniel J. Brooks ( Seth E. Spitzer , Eric A. Boden , on the brief), Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee Patrick Cariou.

Anthony T. Falzone , Julie A. Ahrens , Daniel K. Nazer , Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, Stanford, CA; Virginia Rutledge , New York, NY; Zachary J. Alinder , John A. Polito , Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Joseph C. Gratz , Durie Tangri, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Oliver Metzger , Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, for Amicus Google Inc.

Clifford M. Sloan , Bradley A. Klein , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici The Association of Art Museum Directors, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Museum Associates d.b.a. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Walker Art Center, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Michael Williams , Dale M. Cendali , Claudia Ray , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., and Picture Archive Council of America.

B.D. PARKER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which HALL, J., joined. WALLACE, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.


BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

In 2000, Patrick Cariou published Yes Rasta, a book of classical portraits and landscape photographs that he took over the course of six years spent living among Rastafarians in Jamaica. Richard Prince altered and incorporated several of Cariou's Yes Rasta photographs into a series of paintings and collages, called Canal Zone, that he exhibited in 2007 and 2008, first at the Eden Rock hotel in Saint Barth&...

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