Morris v. Young
February 13, 2013 – The New York State Bar Association EASL BlogAnother new interesting artwork photography/art fair use - "transformative use" - decision was issued 1/28/2013 by the C.D. California (Morris v. Young (CD Cal. 2013)), mirroring the same issues as in Cariou v. Prince, 784 F. Supp. 2d 337, 349 (S.D.N.Y. 2011) [on appeal]. In this case, the defendant, Young, was an artist who created a series of works based on photographic images of the punk band the Sex Pistols that he found on the Internet, which Young believed were in the public domain because they bore no copyright notice.