Paramount, CBS Dueling With Language Group Over Klingon Copyrightability
With its original amicus brief on the docket since April, a renewed application for leave to file the brief in a Star Trek fan film copyright lawsuit hardly counts as a sneak attack, the Language Creation Society (LCS) said Tuesday…
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in a reply (in Pacer) in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. It responded to an opposition (in Pacer) last week from Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios that argued the LCS filing saying the Klingon language can't be copyrighted and thus can't be used as evidence of copyright violation on the part of the makers of an online fan film (see 1612300016) is untimely and improper. The LCS reply throughout uses some Klingon words and phrases with footnoted English translations.