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| Authored by: nsomos on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 10:13 PM EDT |
I've been a folder since the 70's and Isao Honda's
"The World of Origami". The most complicated
model I have folded multiple times, is the Crab,
complete with eight legs and two pincers.
While anyone could develop their own folds and if
they wanted publish books or folding guides or
videos, the folds themselves were free for any to
learn and use. One might almost consider Origami
to be in effect a fore-runner to FOSS.
While someone can certainly copyright their Origami
books, or videos, I object to the idea that they might
try to copyright the very folds themselves, or seek
to prevent any derivative uses.
So because they have folded a certain paper in
a certain way, now nobody else can do that same
fold without their permission?!?
I understand some origamists might be jealous of what
Sarah Morris has done, but there was nothing stopping
them from doing it themselves. These jealous origamists
are in effect 'non practicing entities' that would like
to stop anyone else from profiting from something
related to what they do, but what they have not done
themselves.
These origamists think that Sarah Morris is beholden
to them in some way, while never stopping to think
how they are beholden to those who taught them and
have gone before them.
If the lawyers think that anything can be patented,
then why don't these Origami masters try for patents
on their original Origami creations. (Oh wait ...
forget I wrote that ... don't want to give them any ideas)
Patents on Origami might be just as bad as software patents.
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- Finished work - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 06:22 PM EDT
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