Difference between Klingon and Tengwar

Steve Downey sdowney at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 22:12:23 CDT 2021


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 15:46 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
wrote:

> Languages, including orthography, are not copyrightable. Movie and TV
> production companies regularly make copyright claims of no legal basis.
>

No legal basis is not the same as winning litigation without cost.
How much is the org willing to spend defending a lawsuit from Paramount or
the Tolkien Estate. My understanding is that in the past this number has
been roughly zero.
And that's a reasonable position. Especially since a loss on the issue
would be a terrible precedent.

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