On Friday October 20th, Professor Eva Subotnik presented a forthcoming paper at a symposium entitled “Rearrange, Transform, or Adapt: The Derivative Works Right After Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith,” which was hosted by the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School.

Joining a panel of distinguished lawyers representing the music, publishing, and movie industries on how the Supreme Court’s Warhol decision might affect those industries, Professor Subotnik drew on her extensive body of scholarship on photographers (and photography more generally), including Existential Copyright and Professional Photography, 95 Notre Dame L. Rev. 263 (2019) (with Jessica Silbey and Peter DiCola), to offer a perspective on how that group of creative professionals had long viewed the adaptation right, and how their views might inform the future implementation of the Warhol decision.

The panel was followed by two additional panels:

• One panel featured Professor Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Professor Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, and Professor Pam Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information, UC Berkeley Law School.
• The last panel of the day featured the Hon. Pierre Leval, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Margaret McKeown, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Subotnik’s paper, which she co-authored with Professor Jessica Silbey, Boston University School of Law, will be published in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.