Can Look And Feel Be Copyrighted?

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Klingon is copyrighted

Klingon is copyrighted 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
The Klingon language is apparently copyrighted by Paramount Studios. The nonprofit Klingon Language Institute does not distribute any kind of canonical Klingon-English dictionary, because it fears litigation from Star Trek's parent company.

But the problem is, the Klingon language belongs to Paramount; it's copyrighted. If someone started distributing lists of Klingon words (or descriptions of grammar, etc.), then Paramount might view this as competition for the legitimate sale of their own products, which would be A Bad Thing.

Besides, the very act of compiling your own list, even if it's just from TKD , can be extremely educational

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Is Klingon copyrighted?

Is Klingon copyrighted? 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
Ernie the Attorney Ernest Miller analyses the question, "Can the Klingon language be copyrighted?"

However, can you really copyright a language? You can copyright a dictionary, certainly, but can you copyright grammar? I'm not sure you can copyright grammar at all, since it is a set of rules regarding word usage. Grammar is an idea, that can probably only be expressed in a fairly limited number of ways, even if fanciful.

Additionally, each Klingon word would seem to be too short to qualify as copyrightable individually. I don't think that a list of words in a dictionary format would be copyrightable under Feist. So, I'm not sure at all how one could copyright a language. The individual descriptions of the words might be copyrightable, but as long as they aren't exact copies, the idea/expression dichotomy should provide only limited copyright protection to Paramount.

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Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?

Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content? 01/19/2004 03:05 PM

Eyes on your copyrighted prize

Eyes on your copyrighted prize 01/05/2005 11:31 AM
Don't even think about trying to find a copy of an award-winning civil rights documentary online. The copyright cops will be waiting.

Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters

Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters 01/19/2004 05:00 AM

Convicted Criminal Says His Name Is
Copyrighted, Sues Court For Infringement

Convicted Criminal Says His Name Is
Copyrighted, Sues Court For Infringement 12/09/2003 07:32 PM
Not that this guy has much of a case, but if you want an example of just how screwy copyright law is, take a look at this case. A prison inmate in Missouri who was convicted of mail fraud is trying to sue the judge in his case for copyright infringement - claiming that he owns the copyright on his name. He's demanding $33 million - $500,000 for each time the name is mentioned in court documents. Amusingly, the newspaper article does not name the guy. Perhaps they're afraid of a lawsuit, too? Of course, sending out bogus lawsuits against the federal government probably isn't such a good idea. They're countersuing him for making false claims. He's also in trouble because he didn't actually file the legal documents to sue, but made up fake ones. Of course, while you may scoff at the claim that this guy has a copyright on his name, it may not be that far-fetched, since the Supreme Court has now said that Ros a Parks can sue the band Outkast for using her name in a song.

Garage door openers aren't copyrighted,
don't get DMCA protection

Garage door openers aren't copyrighted,
don't get DMCA protection 09/01/2004 06:10 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has brought down a verdict in the "Skylink" case. That's a DMCA case whereing a garage-door-opener company asserted that another company, which makes interoperable clickers (in case you lose yours or want a spare for your spouse) violated the DMCA by circumventing the protection on the copyrighted software in the garage-door-opener. Yeah, you read right. Copyrighted garage-door-openers.

Anyway, the court delivered the clearest and most ringing condemnation of the overbroad application of the DMCA yet:

The DMCA does not create a new property right for copyright owners. Nor, for that matter, does it divest the public of the property rights that the Copyright Act has long granted to the public. The anticircumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the DMCA create new grounds of liability. A copyright owner seeking to impose liability on an accused circumventor must demonstrate a reasonable relationship between the circumvention at issue and a use relating to a property right for which the Copyright Act permits the copyright owner to withhold authorization-as well as notice that authorization was withheld. A copyright owner seeking to impose liability on an accused trafficker must demonstrate that the trafficker's device enables either copyright infringement or a prohibited circumvention. Here, the District Court correctly ruled that Chamberlain pled no connection between unauthorized use of its copyrighted software and Skylink's accused transmitter. This connection is critical to sustaining a cause of action under the DMCA. We therefore affirm the District Court's summary judgment in favor of Skylink.

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Shocking news: Apple involved in theft
of copyrighted material

Shocking news: Apple involved in theft
of copyrighted material 04/06/2005 10:04 AM
I would have thought a software and IP-house such as Apple would keep its path clean and make sure not to infringe other peoples copyright or downright steal other peoples creations. Not so it seems. Apple and copyright violations -...

A draft law that would forbid the
sharing of copyrighted material on the
Internet without payment of royalties

A draft law that would forbid the
sharing of copyrighted material on the
Internet without payment of royalties 04/03/2005 09:37 PM
Baku Today Apr 4 2005 1:50AM GMT

Tokyo police arrest two for allegedly
swapping copyrighted movies, games

Tokyo police arrest two for allegedly
swapping copyrighted movies, games 12/05/2003 05:24 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 5 2003 3:36PM ET

Police arrest two Japanese for alleged
Net file-swapping of copyrighted movies,
games

Police arrest two Japanese for alleged
Net file-swapping of copyrighted movies,
games 12/05/2003 10:09 AM
China Post Dec 5 2003 8:53AM ET

""Rulemaking on Exemptions from
Prohibition on Circumvention of
Technological Measures that
Control Access to Copyrighted Works""

""Rulemaking on Exemptions from
Prohibition on Circumvention of
Technological Measures that
Control Access to Copyrighted Works"" 10/29/2003 09:21 PM

Now don't you feel better?

Now don't you feel better? 11/19/2003 08:08 AM
Send them back! We're feeling great about ourselves! Because we sent our mp3's BACK!

I Feel So Used

I Feel So Used 08/16/2004 12:08 PM

When Search Engines Become Answer Engines: This is depressing, but no-doubt true.

A major change over the years has been a declining emphasis on using search to identify good sites as such. Rather than hunt for sites to explore and use in depth, users now hunt for specific answers. The Web as a whole has thus become one agglomerated resource for people who use search engines to dredge up specific pages related to specific needs, without caring which sites supply the pages.

I hit and run — I look for answer in Google, visit the page to get the answer, and never even take stock of where I am in the Web. I think Nielsen has good advice for converting users:

Embellish the answer with rich "see also" links to related content and services. Global navigation won't do the trick; answer-seekers will ignore it. Remember, they are not interested in your site. But contextual links will make the most eager users dig deeper -- and the eager ones are the people you'll want to keep as prospects for your for-pay services. See-also links can be embedded (as I've done here) or you can place them at the end of the article, where they serve as a follow-up call to action. The latter gives you the opportunity to let people know that you're actually selling something, and not just handing out free information.

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I feel like I'm dying

I feel like I'm dying 06/03/2004 09:19 AM
I've been married for 14 years to a woman who is clinically depressed. Will the pain ever end?

What Will Bugs Feel Like?

What Will Bugs Feel Like? 05/12/2004 08:12 PM
Two months ago I spilled water directly into my laptop. Looked dead. I let it dry for a while and the screen came back, with static fuzz that faded into clarity after a week. Problem was, I lost the best...

Do You Look as Young as You Feel?

Do You Look as Young as You Feel? 06/21/2004 01:45 PM
Ad - http://www.oo-la-lah.com Jun 21 2004 6:45PM GMT

I feel fine

I feel fine 01/03/2005 10:02 PM
The surprising legacy of Y2K. In the runup to the new millennium, my uncle stocked a bunker full of supplies and ammunition and drove around with more in the trunk of his car. Crazy? Maybe, but this piece by American Public Media might get him off the hook and at the same time give the geeks who staved off armageddon a little credit. [Audio version at NPR's Marketplace]

"Feel the Hate"

"Feel the Hate" 09/04/2004 03:32 PM

XP Users Cop a Feel of OS X

XP Users Cop a Feel of OS X 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
What's better than a nice new Mac running OS X? For some people, it's a cheap Windows XP box hacked and tweaked to look just like an OS X machine. For a lot of XP users, converting PCs into faux Macs is a consuming pastime. By Leander Kahney.

Feel the Hate

Feel the Hate 09/06/2004 03:38 AM
Th at's certainly how the GOP convention seemed to me, though maybe I'm just too "sensitive." But this certainly was a different convention from the GOP convention at which I was a member of the Pennsylvania delegation (indeed, the youngest member of any delegation) in 1980. That the was the Party of Jack Kemp. This is the Party of Zel Miller (!).

"I already feel I'm dead"

"I already feel I'm dead" 09/15/2004 11:55 AM
Is Iraq descending into civil war? As the seemingly indiscriminate violence spreads, many are worried that it is.

"Here's a roundup of others who feel the
same way"

"Here's a roundup of others who feel the
same way" 06/24/2005 09:47 PM

"I feel grrrrrreat!"

"I feel grrrrrreat!" 02/11/2004 03:46 AM

Sometimes You Feel Like A Dolt,
Sometimes You Don't

Sometimes You Feel Like A Dolt,
Sometimes You Don't 07/19/2004 06:21 PM
It's been a long time since I couldn't get something to work because I didn't know I had to turn it on first. By Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

"feel like a woman"

"feel like a woman" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

Feel the colors....

Feel the colors.... 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
I dreamt last night I could feel colors red was warm and sometimes burning while purple was something that tickled...

Liquid Look And Feel

Liquid Look And Feel 10/29/2003 03:53 PM
New changes

" Yup. I definitely feel more secure
now. "

" Yup. I definitely feel more secure
now. " 08/11/2004 08:52 PM

Feel The Force

Feel The Force 04/01/2005 02:50 PM
Rebelscum reader Joe Pertner writes in with some news about a new site for Star Wars fans that ties into the Wal-Mart promotion.

Feel the love

Feel the love 03/13/2003 10:26 AM
So I accidently left Trillian on last night without an away message... Session Start (Yahoo! - Sam Cook:Chris Pirillo): Mon...

Feel my Shamrock babee

Feel my Shamrock babee 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Happy ST. Patrick's day freaky geeks! I have something to pass around today (well besides this freaking cold I've developed...

Do You Feel Like Your Computer is Being
Watched?

Do You Feel Like Your Computer is Being
Watched? 03/22/2005 04:25 PM
Survey Shows, 9 out of 10 Internet-connected PCs are infected with Adware & Spyware and less tech-savvy home users are likely to be most at risk. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]

Donald Murphy doesn't feel the same way

Donald Murphy doesn't feel the same way 12/30/2003 06:12 AM
In a series of recent decisions .. Faith-Based National Parks? .. including the Grand Canyon

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"To say what you feel is to make your
own grave."

"To say what you feel is to make your
own grave." 06/06/2004 11:08 AM
Hootenanny songbook. "Music is our bomb."

Feel my ping babee

Feel my ping babee 03/15/2003 10:15 PM
This is just a test to try out Jason's new blogroll ping. If you haven't done it do it now...

Now I know how the Lisp folks feel

Now I know how the Lisp folks feel 03/14/2003 04:49 PM
And it's not a great feeling. I've an outstanding bet with Guido van Rossum (and that is the right spelling...

..and I no longer feel horny

..and I no longer feel horny 12/02/2003 01:10 AM
T he 12 Sexually Transmitted Infections of Christmas (Flash Required)

Because I fall, I don't want to feel
this small

Because I fall, I don't want to feel
this small 03/13/2003 10:26 AM
Yay, March break baby!! I had a really good lesson with Jennifer this morning, it ended up to be a...
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