Re: RARA-AVIS: Double your title?
Mark Sullivan (AnonymeInc@webtv.net)
Sun, 16 May 1999 00:59:10 -0400 (EDT)
I'm pretty sure you cannot copyright a title in the US.
However,
Hollywood has (or at least had, as '50s drive-in movie
producers started
with the title, then made a move to fit, or not fit, it) a film
registry
to keep film titles from being repeated. It must still be in
effect,
because I remember Dave Simon telling me they had to get David
Mamet's
(actually his lawyer's) permisson to use the title Homicie for
the TV
program. I wonder if someone could challenge it as violating
anti-trust
laws.
Mark
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