The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

[David Starner]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:42 AM David Faulks <davidj_faulks at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> There is another issue of course, which I think could be a huge obstacle:
> the Trademark/Copyright issue. Paramount claims copyright over the entire
> Klingon language (presumably including the script). The issue has recently
> gone to court. Encoding criteria for symbols (and this likely extends to
> letters) is against encoding them without the permission of the
> Copyright/Trademark holder.
>

The US copyright office will not register letters for copyright: cf.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160304062736/http://www.ipmall.info/hosted_resources/CopyrightAppeals/2004/Mark%20Hendricksen.pdf
So the copyright issue is not relevant here.
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