Consumerist bericht: "While you can copyright scripts, novels, song lyrics, and many other ways of using the English language, you can’t actually copyright the English language. But what about a language that you construct out of whole cloth? Once you share it with the world, are people free to use that new language however they wish, or do you maintain control over its use?
This is one of the questions at the heart of an ongoing legal battle between the creators of a Kickstarter-funded Star Trek fan film and Paramount Pictures, which says the project violates various Trek-related copyrights, including the studio’s copyright claim to the Klingon language."
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