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598 U.S. 508 (2023)
SCOTUS re-anchored transformative use to commercial substitution, holding Warhol's Orange Prince license to Vanity Fair was not fair use.
“If an original work and secondary use share substantially the same commercial purpose, Factor 1 weighs against fair use without independent justification.”
Trace how legal rules mutate across centuries as courts adapt statutory language to new technological shocks.
The 185-year mutation from Justice Story's equitable balancing test to Judge Leval's transformative use, expanding into Google Books indexing, before being re-anchored by Sotomayor in Warhol.
Narrows Campbell: new meaning alone fails Factor 1 if secondary work shares the same commercial purpose.
Heightened copyright liability when generative AI outputs compete directly with creators.
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Under 17 U.S.C. § 102(b) and Baker v. Selden, artistic 'style', brushwork technique, and aesthetic mood are uncopyrightable ideas in the public domain. However, under post-Warhol Factor 1, if the synthetic output directly targets the artist's commercial licensing market with high substantial similarity, or appropriates their name in commercial prompts (Lanham Act § 43(a) / NO FAKES Act), severe unfair competition and right of publicity liability triggers.
