After a cursory glance at the KLI,...they really should be writing their wiki with the pIqaD font, instead of using tlh S D and the like. It'd be more 'authentic.'
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Peter Gervai Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:29 AM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] toki pona
[re language copyrights]
I don't know about USA but just finished one big hunk of 'copyright' article in HU: so I believe I'm pretty up to date on the European interpretation (probably similar to international treaties) which explicitely does not allow to copyright ideas, or anything which isn't "materialised". So the toki pona or klingon website, books, recorded materials etc could be copyrighted, but the languages themselves cannot.
(As a sidenote the Klingon font faces/glyphs probably cannot be copyrighted either, just their actual representational forms, prints, etc.)
IANAL (but I have read the law recently :))
peter
ps: ...which doesn't mean they're not protected by other laws, though. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l