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Why AI Lawsuits May Have a Lot to Do With Andy Warhol, Prince & a 1981 Photograph
The major label lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Udio have a lot to do with a recent Supreme Court case involving Andy Warhol and Prince.
The lawsuits filed by the major labels against the AI companies Suno and Udio could be the most important cases to the music business since the Supreme Court Grokster decision, as I explained in last week’s Follow the Money column. In a paper on the topic, “ Fair Use in the U.S. Redux: Reformed or Still Deformed,” the influential Columbia Law School professor Jane Ginsburg suggests that the influence of the transformative use argument might have reached its peak. The Supreme Court also made a very different decision last year in a case that pitted the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts against prominent rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith.
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