The artist looked at his crease patterns and painted them. His work created color symmetries in a field of symmetries. The colors bring their own message to the art. Had he taken a couple of Lang's folded animals (or folded one himself or had it folded) then set it on a table with some fruit or even by itself, painted it as 'still' art, the artist has created new art.
When you paint a scene in the park, and you paint in the people who are sitting around enjoying the park, you don't have to get signed releases from them to paint them into your painting, even if someone who was at the park might recognize themselves or someone they know by a particular geometry that person has and what they were wearing that day.
My belief is that no jury in the world is going to look at Lang's actual folded stuff, and see this abstract pattern stuff, and say there was infringement.
The artist looked at his crease patterns and painted them. His work created color symmetries in a field of symmetries. The colors bring their own message to the art. Had he taken a couple of Lang's folded animals (or folded one himself or had it folded) then set it on a table with some fruit or even by itself, painted it as 'still' art, the artist has created new art.
When you paint a scene in the park, and you paint in the people who are sitting around enjoying the park, you don't have to get signed releases from them to paint them into your painting, even if someone who was at the park might recognize themselves or someone they know by a particular geometry that person has and what they were wearing that day.
My belief is that no jury in the world is going to look at Lang's actual folded stuff, and see this abstract pattern stuff, and say there was infringement.