SAM VENIS is a Brooklyn-based writer, reporter and strategist from Toronto. His last text for Spike was an op-ed on the US Supreme Court’s ruling against Andy Warhol’s “Prince” silkscreens.
With a new coin in the realm, the men who industrialized attention bow down to their merchant king.
While the US Supreme Court’s May 2023 ruling against Andy Warhol’s “Prince” silkscreens might hamstring appropriative art, could the verdict ultimately help protect human artists from generative AI?