Justices Search for Middle Way in Warhol-Prince Fair Use Fight

US Supreme Court justices invoked “The Shining” as they probed an Andy Warhol print based on a photograph of Prince, and signaled they’ll ponder significant new copyright fair use guidance even if they don’t take an ax to existing case law, attorneys predicted.

The justices last week probed conflicting views on how to weigh the purpose and character of a follow-on use in a dispute over Vanity Fair’s publication of Warhol’s print, which used a Lynn Goldsmith photograph of Prince as its reference. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit previously found that the consideration, ...