Re: Interesting article about conlangs and the law

On 9/15/07, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> Since I live in Canada the laws may be a bit different. According to the
> Canadian  Intellectual Property Office, "copyright applies to all original
> literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works." I define my conlang as an
> artlang. I therefore consider it a work of art and as such would be covered
> under Canadian Copyright law.
If your language (as a whole, I presume) is a work of art covered
under copyright, would that mean that someone writing sentences in
your artlang is producing a derivative work, which would need to be
licensed?

Or would creating a derivative work entail creating a new language
based on yours?

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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