Andy Warhol Foundation Pays $21,000 to Resolve Prince Photo Case

The Andy Warhol Foundation agreed to pay photographer Lynn Goldsmith more than $21,000 to resolve a closely watched copyright case that went before the Supreme Court last year.

Goldsmith, whose photograph of the musician Prince was turned into a series of colorful silkscreens by Warhol, is entitled to $10,250 in damages for her copyright claim and $11,272.94 in legal costs, according to a final judgment approved by a Manhattan federal judge on Monday.

The years-long dispute resulted in a landmark 2023 US Supreme Court ruling in favor of Goldsmith, who said she never gave permission to Warhol to make the ...