Imran Ghory wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Your dependance on Paramount's position implies that they have a right to grant such a permission. If the material is not copyrightable, then what Paramount says does not matter. We can go ahead without their permission.
This is Paramount we're talking about, they have a long history of taking legal action against unauthorized books and websites related to startrek. So even if they don't have copyright, as long as they claim that they do we should not have a klingon wikipedia, unless we are prepared to fight them in court.
That's an alarmist position and copyright paranoia. It's also defeatist. You want to collapse immediately even if they are wrong. The first step that they would need to take is to issue a take-down order, and they haven't done that. After that, in the absence of proper registration on their part (and what that means for an entire language remains to be determined) their damages would be limited to a recovery of any profits we may have made through a copyright violation. ( O:-) )
Since you seem to be arguing on behalf of Paramount, what legal citations are you using to back your position.
This copyright issue is far more important than the status of the Klingon language, so please stop using it as an excuse for blocking Klingon.
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