Re: Conlang legal protection (WAS: Conlang music)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 8, 2009, 12:05 |
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:54, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
> If a court ruled that this is the case, then practically speaking,
> using words created by the author would be copyright infringement
> (although potentially covered by one of the exclusions that makes that
> OK).
>
> However, making up new words might not be, since copyright does not
> protect *methods*, i.e. the grammar itself, just *content*, i.e. the
> corpus.
Isn't that why Lojban went through a Great Relexification, while
maintaining much of the grammar of TLI Loglan?
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>