Richard Prince Settles with Photographer Patrick Cariou
By David Walker
A fair use alteration of one of Patrick Cariou’s photographs, by Richard Prince.
Artist Richard Prince has paid an undisclosed sum of money to photographer Patrick Cariou to tie up the loose ends of their five-year copyright battle, The New York Times has reported.
Prince previously won an appeals court decision in 2013 dismissing most of Cariou’s copyright infringement claims. Cariou had alleged infringement of 30 images from his book Yes, Rasta that Prince had appropriated for a series of paintings. Most of the paintings sold through Prince’s gallery, fetching more than $10 million dollars.
The US Court of Appeals for …read more
Via: PDN Pulse
