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it's thursday october 13th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. A Supreme Court case involving Prince and Andy Warhol that could have huge implications on the future of art. Plus, a new book by Galileo just dropped, and a song sung by 100,000 people who didn't know they were singing together.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

There's been a lot of hubbub recently around the rights of artists in AI art generation. Like, how should an artist whose work

is being culled by the AI be credited? Is there any sort of compensation they should get if

the AI generated art that partially uses some of this other artist's art is commercialized?

And how did these artists even find out their art is being

used? It's a hot topic right now, and frankly makes my head spin a bit. But while the Web3 folks

tread that inevitably litigious path, there's a more traditional case that's made it all the

way to the Supreme Court, even though the two most

famous artists involved have long since passed away. The case centers on a series of 16

silk screens that Andy Warhol produced of the musician Prince. They're not Warhol's most

famous works, but you might recognize them. Or if you saw them

altogether, you'd probably guess that they were made by Warhol. But the reference image used for

the silk screens was not taken by Warhol. It was taken by a photographer named Lynn Goldsmith,

and she never gave her permission for Warhol to use them.

And how this case gets decided could have far-reaching implications for artists and free

expression in the U.S. So here's roughly what happened, as NPR describes it.

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