From cowan@ccil.org Mon May 05 17:35:35 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 83097 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19CqQi-0007PL-00; Mon, 05 May 2003 20:35:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:35:36 -0400 To: Craig Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > 1. The courts have ruled that you can't copyright a language. This is how > Lojban is legal, when it is an offshoot of Loglan. What the court ruled was that "Loglan" was a generic term and not trademarkable, that's all. The question of copyrightability was not challenged by the LLG because the words had already been remade. -- I suggest you call for help, John Cowan or learn the difficult art of mud-breathing. jcowan@reutershealth.com --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan From cowan@ccil.org Mon May 05 17:35:35 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 83097 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 00:35:35 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19CqQi-0007PL-00; Mon, 05 May 2003 20:35:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:35:36 -0400 To: Craig Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > 1. The courts have ruled that you can't copyright a language. This is how > Lojban is legal, when it is an offshoot of Loglan. What the court ruled was that "Loglan" was a generic term and not trademarkable, that's all. The question of copyrightability was not challenged by the LLG because the words had already been remade. -- I suggest you call for help, John Cowan or learn the difficult art of mud-breathing. jcowan@reutershealth.com --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan