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Conlangery #52: Conlangery at the Movies

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Copyrighting Languages

"If anyone does anything with Klingon, they don't like. And sometimes they do," he says. "But I think from the most part, they just kind of don't bother too much with it." Paramount's lawyers know that trying to claim intellectual property rights is a difficult case because no one's certain if you can copyright a language. The problem is all you need is a Hollywood Studios lawyers writing you a strongly worded letter. Nobody who's going to be involved in this has the means to make the case that it can't be copyrighted.

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