[Wikipedia-l] Klingon
David Gerard
fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Wed Jun 9 22:06:44 UTC 2004
On 06/09/04 03:56, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Imran Ghory wrote:
>> I think there's one simple way to end this arguement,
>> Paramount owns the copyright to the Klingon language, the words, the
>> grammar, everything.
>> Let me repeat, (it is claimed) Paramount owns the copyright to individual
>> klingon words.
>> i.e. we can't legally have a klingon wikipedia.
> The situation may not be as simple as that. It opens up the question of
> whether a language can be copyrighted at all. I suspect that it may be
> patentable in the same way that certain accounting and business
> processes have been patented. But that's a whole new kettle of fish.
> Have there been any court decisions anywhere about whether copyrights in
> a langiuage can exist.
Furthermore, if someone did try to claim the use, down to individual words,
of a language as Intellectual Property, I'd get behind a project to create
a Wikipedia in the language *because* of such a dangerously ridiculous
and overbroadened concept of ownership.
- d.
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