I feel like legally, Lang will probably lose. Morris made paintings of patterns than were meant to be transformed, in essence turning the scaffolding of a piece of art into a piece of art itself. My guess is that this is enough for the work to be considered her own.

From a non-legal standpoint, it's pretty sleazy to take someone's design, paint over it exactly (with some color modifications) and not give that person any amount of credit. Did she transform it? Perhaps. But she didn't just get inspiration from it, she literally used the design, verbatim, as her own. I take issue with this.

I'm all for people using each other's work and art progressing as a whole, but I also think it's bad form to not give credit where it's due. I definitely think this is a case where it's due.

I'm interested to see what the courts think, although something tells me it won't get to court.