Federal Judge Okays Copyright Lawsuit Against Richard Prince – And Ruling Sounds Ominous For Defendant

“Photographer Donald Graham … alleges that Prince unlawfully used his photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint (1996) when he enlarged an Instagram post of it for his New Portraits show at New York’s Gagosian Gallery in 2014.” The judge noted in his ruling that “Prince has not materially altered the composition, presentation, scale, color palette and media originally used by Graham.”