On 06/10/04 20:32, Imran Ghory wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Timwi wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
However as I said before, if you or someone else can get Paramount to clarify the legal permission of the lanugage, then we'd be in a position to progress.
It should be pretty obvious that Paramount is not going "clarify" anything, but rather exaggerate or skew everything to their favour (lying isn't illegal).
It is if you get them to use a DMCA style statement which requires they act in "good faith" in claiming copyright. Anyway, there's one way to know for sure and that is to ask them. Would someone in the US please write to them so we can find out what the actually say rather than just speculating.
Has anyone asked Richard Stallman what he thinks of the idea of copyrighting a *language*, down to the *words*? I think we'd see a somewhat more vigorous Klingon wikipedia. Filled with political speech.
- d.