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klingon_language_copyright [2017/01/05 15:45] – created Carlos Pedrazaklingon_language_copyright [2017/01/05 21:03] – [Language Creation Society] Carlos Pedraza
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 ==== Language Creation Society ==== ==== Language Creation Society ====
  
-The mission of the [[http://conlang.org/resources/|Language Creation Society]] (LCS)is to promote the art and craft of language creation — free expression that would be stifled by allowing any language to be copyrighted:+The mission of the [[http://conlang.org/resources/|Language Creation Society]] (LCS) is to promote the art and craft of language creation — free expression that would be stifled by allowing any language to be copyrighted:
  
 > Allowing copyright claims to a language would create a monopoly on use extending far beyond what is needed to protect the original work or to claim credit for the language’s creation. The potential threat of a lawsuit for merely using a conlang [constructed language], or creating new works to make it more accessible, has a chilling effect.(([[http://conlang.org/axanar/|Axanar page, Language Creation Society]], retrieved 1/5/16.)) > Allowing copyright claims to a language would create a monopoly on use extending far beyond what is needed to protect the original work or to claim credit for the language’s creation. The potential threat of a lawsuit for merely using a conlang [constructed language], or creating new works to make it more accessible, has a chilling effect.(([[http://conlang.org/axanar/|Axanar page, Language Creation Society]], retrieved 1/5/16.))
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 === Substantial Similarity === === Substantial Similarity ===
  
-The issue of whether a language can be copyrighted was first dealt with by Klausner in his May 9, 2016, order rejected Axanar's motion to dismiss the case. The LCS had attached an amicus curae ("friend of the court") brief to that motion. +The issue of whether a language can be copyrighted was first dealt with by Klausner in his May 9, 2016, order rejected Axanar's motion to dismiss the case. The LCS had attached an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief to that motion. 
  
 Klausner ruled the language issue was beside the point; Paramount's claim that Axanar was using Klingon was only part of a larger test to determine whether Axanar's use of many Star Trek elements, some of which might individually not qualify for copyright protection, was substantially similar //in total// to Star Trek. Klausner ruled the language issue was beside the point; Paramount's claim that Axanar was using Klingon was only part of a larger test to determine whether Axanar's use of many Star Trek elements, some of which might individually not qualify for copyright protection, was substantially similar //in total// to Star Trek.