Re: The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

From: David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:22:16 +0000

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:42 AM David Faulks <davidj_faulks_at_yahoo.ca> wrote:

> There is another issue of course, which I think could be a huge obstacle:
> the Trademark/Copyright issue. Paramount claims copyright over the entire
> Klingon language (presumably including the script). The issue has recently
> gone to court. Encoding criteria for symbols (and this likely extends to
> letters) is against encoding them without the permission of the
> Copyright/Trademark holder.
>

The US copyright office will not register letters for copyright: cf.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160304062736/http://www.ipmall.info/hosted_resources/CopyrightAppeals/2004/Mark%20Hendricksen.pdf
So the copyright issue is not relevant here.
Received on Sun Nov 06 2016 - 16:22:59 CST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Sun Nov 06 2016 - 16:22:59 CST