Re: Loxian

Sally Caves skrev:
> This was rejected yesterday, since I was over quota.  So it weirdly
> follows my comment on Loxian that I posted just now.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:57 PM
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>
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>> John Cowan, who used to frequent this list and is gone, alas, and who
>> has worked on Lojban for long years, and who remembers the incendiary
>> quarrels about Loglang and whether it could be copyrighted, has
>> expressed emphatically that invented languages cannot be.
>
>
> Except languages that appear in CDs by Famous Singers, apparently.  I
> wonder if this is also true of the Magma group.  What about "Sanomi"--
> printed on the Internet?  What happens when you print something on the
> Internet?
There probably can't be any such exception.  As I understand it
people have tried and do try to copyright languages, but such
attempts won't stand up in court.  But I'm no lawyer of course.

/BP who has to work on his relay text now...


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