{"id":44415,"date":"2014-08-17T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/on-the-economics-and-politics-and-ethics-of-owning-a-language.html"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:08:19","slug":"on-the-economics-and-politics-and-ethics-of-owning-a-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/on-the-economics-and-politics-and-ethics-of-owning-a-language.html","title":{"rendered":"On the economics — and politics and ethics — of owning a language"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, so, yeah, this is pretty fascinating stuff. \u00a0My inclination is to say, "Huh, well, yeah, interesting request,\u00a0Tasmanian Aboriginal Center, but you can't (and, to my mind shouldn't) be able to copyright a language." \u00a0<\/p>\n

But there may also be some privilege issues there, too, that are blinding me to some compelling ethical reason why they should.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +A Way with Words<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you own a language? http:\/\/ow.ly\/AoW9k<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Can you own a language?<\/a>
\n In its first-ever transparency report, the Wikimedia Foundation revealed a handful of odd stories about takedown requests sent to Wikipedia. Among the claims on public-domain books and monkey…\n <\/p>\n

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Okay, so, yeah, this is pretty fascinating stuff. \u00a0My inclination is to say, "Huh, well, yeah, interesting request,\u00a0Tasmanian Aboriginal Center, but you can't (and, to my mind shouldn't) be able to copyright a language." \u00a0 But there may also be some privilege issues there, too, that are blinding me to some compelling ethical reason why … Continue reading “On the economics — and politics and ethics — of owning a language”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,79,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-media-intellectual-property","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133255,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/furriners-with-unassimilated-kids-strange-language-and-dangerous-foreign-ties.html","url_meta":{"origin":44415,"position":0},"title":"Furriners with unassimilated kids, strange language, and dangerous foreign ties","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Apr-17 10:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A century ago, it was German-Americans who were the target of suspicion, of accusations, of fears that they were trying to betray the nation, to turn American over to the Huns. 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