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A U.S. federal lawsuit over the rights to Star Trek is leading where, to our knowledge, no U.S. federal judge has gone before.

A group called the Language Creation Society wants U.S. District Court Judge Gary Klausner to rule that Klingon is a spoken language and therefore beyond the reach of U.S. copyright laws, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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In late 2015, Paramount Pictures Corp. sued Axanar Productions Inc. for copyright infringement in the U.S. District Court for Central California. The defendants have raised US$1 million to make a fan-funded film that aims to look and feel like a “true Star Trek movie.” Paramount claims copyright over Star Trek and says Axanar has no right to make the film.

In one of several examples of alleged copyright violations, Paramount claims rights to the Klingon language. That move attracted the ire of the Language Creation Society, which has filed a 26-page amicus brief in U.S. federal court challenging Paramount’s assertion.