tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 01 13:24:04 2006
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Re: Hamlet
Huh? The Klingon Language Institute is licensed by Paramount. What
does that mean?
So if I use Klingon, write, read, mention it, Paramount could get
upset? What's the copyright deal\limit?
On 5/1/06, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> naHQun:
> > > (I normally get stuck on the part that says Paramount
> > > owns the copyright to the Klingon translation)
>
> ghunchu'wI':
> >There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that. The KLI *gave*
> >Paramount the copyright (and the camera-ready translation itself) in
> >return for having it published as a mass-market trade paperback by
> >Pocket Books.
>
> IIRC the corporate media giant ViaCom owns both Paramount Studios and Simon
> & Schuster (Pocket Books is their mass-market paperback division). Simon &
> Schuster/Pocket Books publishes virtually all official Trek-related books
> and games.
>
> >Paramount does not own the Klingon translation to _Much Ado about
> >Nothing_.
>
> Makes sense as this was *not* published by Pocket Books, but by the Klingon
> Language Institute (which is licensed by Paramount).
>
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> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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