Who owns Klingon? Lawsuit draws battle over invented languages into court

The invented tongue of Klingon belongs to no man, corporation or star fleet, a society of language creators has told a federal judge as he weighs a copyright lawsuit against a fan-funded Star Trek film.

He added: “Klingon as a whole is copyrightable, but that doesn’t mean that no one could use the Klingon language within a book or movie.”

Randazza argued that Klingon has escaped its creators thanks to the “thousands of people” who have made it “an actual living language”.