A copyright case going before the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 12 encompasses the avant-garde pop art of Andy Warhol, the musical genius and personal vulnerability of the performer Prince and the rarefied worlds of rock photography and glossy magazines. At stake is nothing less than the future of all ‘artistic expression’, says one side, while the other says the legal test proposed by its adversary ‘would transform copyright law into all copying, no right’, and turn the fair use defense under copyright into ‘a license to steal’.
