Re: linguistic copywrong: Was: I'm sorry I brought it up...

At 06:53 PM 3/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Guys, guys... this is getting a little too prolonged for my tastes.  THANK
>YOU, Yitzik, for sympathizing with me.  I too would like to tear the face
>off of anybody who would try to exploit my conlang and turn it into Lunatic,
>spoken by moon maidens.  But all this counter-argument that's going up here,
>while illuminating, is detailing for any outsider who's reading the list and
>who has a mind for it the ways in which they could exploit us with impunity.
>Perhaps we could shelve this?  We're enlightened now.

   Hear hear! I left Tolklang and Elfling precisely because I got really
tired of these arguments (well, these and the ever-enduring Helge/Carl
debates).
   It's a complicated matter, and given that we've been provided with a
lawyers opinions, who specialized in intellectual rights, and none of the
arguers are lawyers at all, I think it should be dropped.

   Aidan

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