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+ | ====== Judge Avoids Klingon Language Copyright Issue ====== | ||
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+ | Despite a clever, headline-grabbing effort by the Language Creation Society to draw attention to the copyright ability of constructed languages like Klingon, a federal judge turned aside an effort to attach the issue to the Axanar copyright infringement case. | ||
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+ | ===== Moot Issue ===== | ||
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+ | In an order issued January 5, 2017, federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]] said the issue of whether Klingon, or any other language, is entitled to copyright protection was rendered moot by his order earlier that week denying Axanar a fair use defense for copyright infringement: | ||
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+ | > [The] Language Creation Society … argues, in support of Defendants’ position in the cross motions for [[summary judgment]], that the Klingon language should not be entitled to copyright protection. … The Court did not reach the issue of whether a language, and specifically the Klingon language, is copyrightable in the order. | ||
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+ | ===== Copyrighting a Language ===== | ||
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+ | In April 2016, Language Creation Society filed an amicus brief, partly written in Klingon, opposing [[paramount_pictures|Paramount]]’s claim of owning the copyright for the Klingon language, developed for the studio by linguist Marc Okrand for the film, //Star III: The Search for Spock//. | ||
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+ | ==== Language Creation Society ==== | ||
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+ | > 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:// | ||
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+ | === Not Affiliated with Axanar === | ||
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+ | While the LCS filed a brief alongside the defendants, the society emphasized it was taking no sides in the larger copyright dispute between CBS, Paramount and Axanar. | ||
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+ | === Substantial Similarity === | ||
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+ | The issue of whether a language can be copyrighted was first dealt with by Klausner in his May 9, 2016, order rejected Axanar' | ||
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+ | Klausner ruled the language issue was beside the point; Paramount' | ||
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+ | The same reasoning appeared to be behind Klausner' | ||
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