Posted on 04/28/2016 10:11:55 PM PDT by kitchen
Paramount's arguments lack reason, or "meq Hutlh."
The Language Creation Society has filed an amicus brief challenging Paramount's claim of copyright over the Klingon language in its lawsuit against Axanar, a fan-produced film set in the Star Trek universe. Marc Randazza, a top notch first amendment attorney who has helped out Reason on copyright issues, and Alex Shepard filed the brief yesterday.
Conlanging is the process of constructing a language, and Klingon is a popular conlang which originated with lines of dialogue and a dictionary written by Marc Okrand, the linguist who created Klingon for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the two movies after that.
The amicus brief is peppered with Klingon words and phrases, even quoting The Big Lebowski in Klingon, "not Qam ghu'vam" ("This will not stand, man") in response to the idea that anyone expressing anything in Klingon would be a copyright infringer if Paramount owned the actual language. The brief mentions Eddie Dean, whose dad taught him Klingon at an early age.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
First world problem.
Avatar looked to have much potential. It’s too bad cbs/paramont found it necessary to kill it.
Darned auto correct. Axanar, not avatar.
I don’t know about living long, but the lawyers will be the ones to prosper.
Ain’t dead yet but I still have no idea why they are doing this. I’ve seen many Trek fan films over the years, entire SERIES of fan films so why try to stop this one?
I haven’t paid a lot of attention, but apparently CBS/Parmount has a new Trek TV Series in the works. Apparently someone feels that a HQ fan movie will dilute their brand suddenly.
What a baktag.
Now that, my friend, is the peak of awesomeness.
I tried to answer in Klingon but the preview did not display it right.
All your base are belong to us.
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