In a copyright story with a twist, a photographer is taking the late singer Prince’s estate to court. Madison Dube says that the singer’s estate is wrongly using her photography and creative work without permission or a licence.
And while this sounds like a relatively straight forward copyright claim, it’s interesting because of her reasoning behind retaining the right to her work. In her lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota, Ms Dube alleges that Prince’s estate is prioritising “corporate interests over artists’ rights, in direct contravention of Prince’s well-known principles and legacy.”
