Re: this is what I got in the mail.

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Damn straight.  Copyright it, too.  I have a copyright insignia in the title
> headers to every page.  Better go back and see that it IS every page. :-\
Particular texts in, or about, one's conlang are copyrightable and indeed
copyrighted as soon as they are recorded in any medium.  But the language
itself is almost certainly not an object of intellectual property -- you
cannot under the law prevent people from writing texts in your conlang,
for example, still less from using for conversation, no matter how
awful you think the texts or conversations may be.

> Thanks Yitzik... I wrote the guy back and gave him a polite "no," thanked
> him for his interest, reminded him that I had plans of my own for this
> invention of mine, thanked him for respecting my WISHES, and wishing him
> luck in his RPG.  Very civil.
I'm glad it remained so.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_