[Wikipedia-l] toki pona

[Mark Williamson]

I'm pretty sure it is. The legal question here though is, as I
understand it, whether or not copyrights of languages are valid or
not, and apparently there is precident (Lojban) for languages being
uncopyrightable.

--node

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:59:17 -0400, James R. Johnson
<modean52 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Isn't Klingon copyrighted?
> 
> James
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Stirling Newberry
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:58 PM
> To: Mark Williamson; wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] toki pona
> 
> On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:53 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> > As I said before, while the law may be debated I added the notices
> > because of a suspected copyvio. IANAL...
> >
> > --node
> >
> 
> This point is not debateable - a language is not copyrightable, since
> it is an idea, not a particular work.
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