SAN FRANCISCO — A copyright suit over a “Star Trek” spinoff has ignited a legal battle over whether made-up languages—and specifically Klingon— are copyrightable.
In an amicus brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District for California, the Language Creation Society argues that Paramount Pictures Corp. cannot own the language of the fictional Klingon alien race.
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