A messy court battle between a rock band and a photographer has gotten messier. In December, Amy Taylor, frontwoman of the band Amyl and the Sniffers, took photographer Jamie Nelson to court after Nelson shot pictures of her for a Vogue Portugal story titled "Champagne Problems." In her suit, Taylor claimed Nelson later sold fine-art prints of the photos without her permission. Nelson then countersued Taylor, her partner and the band for damage for allegedly infringing copyright by reposting the photos on Instagram, notes The Guardian, which recently detailed the story behind the court case.

  Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was a visionary French architect who, among other things, devised the structural system that made it possible for Gustav Eiffel’s Statue of Liberty to sport a skin of self-oxidizing copper. His approach to materials was: understand the properties and the form will ensue. Many years later, this idea was popularized by Louis Sullivan, who coined the phrase, “Form Follows Function”—a statement widely considered ...