
Supreme Court and artistic expression: Justices debate celebrities, photographs and 'transformative' fair use
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Andy Warhol's Prince series is in the crosshairs of Supreme Court oral arguments debating the nature of what qualifies as 'transformative art' under the First Amendment.
At issue is whether a work of art is transformative if it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material, or instead whether courts cannot consider the meaning if it "recognizably derives from" its source material. Shannon Bream currently serves as anchor of FOX News Sunday. She joined the network in 2007 as a Washington D.C- based correspondent covering the Supreme Court. Her latest book is ""
The outcome will have enormous financial and artistic implications in a range of media-- including photography, computer-generated graphic art, movie adaptions, television sequels, even news and documentaries.