Article 27N7K Synthetic linguists file a new brief (with Klingon passages!) about Paramount's fan-film crackdown

Synthetic linguists file a new brief (with Klingon passages!) about Paramount's fan-film crackdown

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Cory Doctorow
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2016's lawsuit between Paramount and the Trekkers who crowdfunded Axanar, a big-budged fan film set in the Trekverse, continues its slog through the courts, and continues to be enlivened by the interventions of the Language Creation Society, an organization of synthetic language enthusiasts, whose amicus briefs ask the court to reject Paramount's claim of a copyright in the synthetic language of Klingon, which has many speakers, including some who learned it as their first language. (more")

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