Re: Copyrighting/Patenting a Conlang

I've been out of town for a bit, so I apologize if I'm responding early to a
thread that's gone elsewhere: I'll catch up.

This specific issue came to mind awhile back with me because of something
that happened.   Every so often since I put my website up, people have e-mailed
me about their conlangs, conlanging in general, etc.   One such person e-mailed
me about his/her new language that they wanted me to comment on.   They sent
me a word file, and I started reading over, when I realized that some of it
sounded familiar.  And, as it turned out, large portions of the text had been
copied directly from one of my webpages, and altered superficially (e.g.,
changing the name of the language).   I thought that was kind of odd, but I didn't
say anything about it.   I e-mailed the person back, trying to get more info on
them, but I haven't heard from them since.   That was like three months ago.
 I was kind of bothered by the whole thing, but wasn't all that alarmed, for
a number of practical reasons.   Didn't know what to make of it.   That was
when I added the little copyright info bit to all my pages (not that it changes
anything).   So I'll be reading through this thread with interest.

-David
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