I have heard of origami being similar to music in terms of origami diagrams and music sheets in relation to copyright infringement. Origami diagrams are a set of instructions the same way music sheets are a set of instructions. Thus, if it is copyright infringement to play other people's songs from music sheet, then it is also copyright infringement to fold other people's origami model from a published diagram. I'm not sure if this would hold up in court, but you can see the parallel. The problem can then extend to: 1) if you buy a pattern to knit a scarf, 2) if you buy a recipe to bake a cake 3) if you buy instructions to make xyz,then would it also be copyright infringement to make those things and sell for cash? Diana
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 06:58 Peter Engel <peterengelarchit...@earthlink.net> wrote: On Sep 23, 2023, at 6:38 PM, gera...@neorigami.com wrote: I'm curious about it. Where does this idea come from? Who was the first to propose it and where did he or she do it? Hi Gerardo, I’m sure there’s not a “first,” but when I wrote about origami and music in my book Folding the Universe (1989), I don’t believe that I had come across anything written prior to that. A number of creative paperfolders are skilled musicians, so music is likely an impetus, conscious or unconscious, in their design process. I’m not a performer, but classical music has been important to me my entire adult life, and I know that it has influenced my design process as well. —Peter Engel
