I meant it when i said I have no idea who had the better of Warhol. So the following is from my FIU colleague Hannibal Travis, who does.
The majority opinion in Warhol carries forward certain recent trends in decisionmaking at the Supreme Court. As others have noted, there is a “David and Goliath” quality to the ruling that photographer Lynn Goldsmith, breaking barriers as a woman in the male-dominated rock-n-roll photography field and earning a modest living from selling photographs to magazines for around $400, was entitled to compensation for Andy Warhol making an unauthorized tracing and silkscreen of her photograph of the rock star Prince and licensing it to Vanity Fair for $10,000. It is reminiscent of the celebrated ruling