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20 October 2022FeaturesCopyrightBill Frankel

The Warhol 'Prince series' conundrum

Artist Andy Warhol created a licensed artistic rendering of a copyrighted photograph of the musician Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith for use in a 1984 Vanity Fair article. Subsequently, Warhol created 16 silkscreen prints ('Prince series') based on the same original Goldsmith photograph.

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