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The Supreme Court, which is no stranger to the big questions of American life, took up a sizable one on Monday: What is art? The case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, centers around a dispute over whether the pop-art legend violated a photograph’s copyright when creating one of his iconic tableaus of modern celebrity. Resolving it will require answering a host of interesting questions: Where does copyright end and the First Amendment begin? When is a work of art simply derivative, and when is it truly transformative?

If you think our world has changed at an unprecedented rate; if you think we’re all but doomed by carbon and capital, or that we might be saved by solar power and silicon; if you wonder whether and when English-speaking societies have ever been through so much so fast, you might look at the years after 1880, when telephones and electric light and the phonograph, cheap high-volume printing and wireless signals and radio, bicycles, trolleys, automobiles, tanks, airplanes, and (not least) compulsory public education made the globe seem smaller... Читать дальше...

Earlier this month, Trump lawyer John Eastman told a federal court in California that if it ruled against him in his legal battle against the House January 6 Committee, it “may be the first formal finding of presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history.” On Monday, Judge David Carter fulfilled his prediction.