Nigel said: " Regarding Ligiya Montoya copyright. This is more difficult as some of her models are in Robert Harbin books.."
How does the compensation agreement that Harbin had with Montoya (if any) impact future sales of the Harbin works with her models? That is, if you hold the copyright to publish a deceased author's works, do the contributors to that original work effectively forfeit compensation or discretion in how their designs are distributed? I can see how complicated this could get, given that many origami books contain models from many designers. How do you consider publication or distribution (or restriction thereof) of Harbin's works with respect to the contributors? By the way, thank you for giving such a well-informed answer! It's terrific that you have developed a system for handling this sort of thing; it's refreshing to know there are solutions in place to handle it. Now I'm off to determine if i can publish a book of Nick Robinson's models as my own designs if I change the coloured side on each model to the opposite, and claim it's transformational instead of derivative. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
