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3 July 2019Copyright

Andy Warhol Prince ruling ‘unsurprising’, say lawyers

A ruling that a series of illustrations of late musician Prince by artist Andy Warhol are transformative and do not infringe a photographer’s copyright followed previous arguments made by the courts, said lawyers.

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