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RE: pIqaD and Transformers...

Chad Fisher ([email protected])



DloraH <[email protected]> wrote:  > PIQAD symbols are technically a registered trademark of 
> Paramount... 
...
> PIQAD is also, when specifically done with the sound letter 
> relationship considered free license, 
...
> Suppose I were to make a movie with Klingon symbols in word 
> form, I can do that because they refer to
> Klingon sounds... 

As far as we know the pIQaD used by Paramount was never mapped to any sounds. So by your
explanation you could not use it in a movie because the symbols in word form would not refer to
sounds.

The pIQaD that us in the KLI use, which has been mapped to sounds, is a different set of symbols
than the Paramount set. Very similar, yes, but not the same.


'ach DaH, tlhIngan Hol bopbe'mo' QInvam, tlhIngan Hol vIlo'nIS.

QIch 'oSbe'law' Paramount pIQaD. vaj QIjghachlIj wIqelchugh, lutvaD (Paramount) pIQaD Dalo' net
chaw'be', QIch 'oSbe'mo' mu'qoq.

QIch 'oSbej pIQaD'e' wIlo'bogh KLI maH; 'ach pIm Paramount pIQaD KLI pIQaD je. rur, teH, 'ach
rapbe'.


DloraH



You are correct, similar not the same.  But even in the usage of the precise symbols used by Paramount, Paramount has made no lawsuit against any usage as of date.  However they do have the official creative license as to the actual PIQAD symbols, from which the new system has been devloped.  For them these symbols are more of an artistic design, which could be used anywhere.  More than likely the usage of them in connection was probably an "inside joke" relating to the storyline of Transformers being aliens.  Connecting the designs they already owned to a new concept that they also own is not out of the ordinary.  I am just stating the original designs are officially owned by Paramount, although they have never fought any usages of such symbols outside of Paramount, and I highly doubt they ever will.
       
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