Prince versus Cariou copyright case settled The art world’s most closely watched lawsuit, the copyright case between the photographer Patrick Cariou and the artist Richard Prince, has come to an end. The two sides reached a confidential settlement on Tuesday after six years of legal wrangling. As part of the agreement, Cariou withdraws any claim to the works in Prince’s “Canal Zone” series, which borrowed imagery from his photographs of Jamaican Rastafarians. Both sides will pay their own legal fees.