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In 1981, the rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith did a photoshoot with an up-and-coming singer songwriter called Prince. A few years later, he became a superstar, and she licenced one of her photos to Vanity Fair to be used as a reference picture for an illustration.

That portrait, known as \\u201cPurple Prince\\u201d was painted by Andy Warhol.

But what Lynn Goldsmith didn\\u2019t know, and nor did anyone else, was that Warhol made multiple portraits from her photograph. After Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair licenced a different one of these portraits from the Andy Warhol Foundation for a tribute in the magazine. That picture was called the \\u201cOrange Prince\\u201d.

When Lynn Goldsmith saw this new portrait, she asserted her copyright \\u2013 and so did the Andy Warhol Foundation. The US Supreme Court, is now trying to decide whether the photo was \\u201ctransformed\\u201d when Warhol painted it, and what constitutes \\u201cfair use\\u201d. It\\u2019s a case with vast implications for artists, photographers, galleries and the art business.

So this week on the Inquiry, we\\u2019re asking: why are Warhol\\u2019s Prince works before the US Supreme Court?

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier\\nProducer: Ravi Naik\\nEditor: Tara McDermott\\nResearcher: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty\\nBroadcast co-ordinators : Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed

(Photo: Prince Rogers Nelson Credit: \\xa9\\ufe0f 1981 Lynn Goldsmith)