"Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever / Thy bayted hookes shall tangill me no more"

Now here's a story of interest to several of us here -- a lawsuit over the question of how transformative a work derivative of a copyrighted work must be to be protected under copyright law. Myself, I'm interested in that aspect, but what reach catches my eye is that it's origami artist Robert Lang suing abstract artist Sarah Morris over paintings based on his crease patterns. Lang's core argument:

“If an independent third party recognizes my work in it — I don’t think that’s very transformative.”

Which is not exactly how to phrase it as a legal argument, but then, he's not a lawyer.

It will be interesting, in a couple directions, to see how this plays out. (via)

FWIW, I have the book with the moose pattern, but have never successfully folded it -- it requires either better paper at the size needed or larger paper of the quality needed. Which doesn't stop me from wanting the instructions for the Irish elk also pictured in the article.

---L.