[SNIP]
> Movie titles are registered, but re-use seems to be
common after a
> movie has been out a while and has faded. Obviously,
you're not going
> to see another CASABLANCA, but some titles have been
used three or four
> times.
According to an essay in Deborah Cartmel, et al, eds.
_Pulping
Fictions_, Universal still own the film title _Frankenstein_,
hence
Kenneth Branagh's film had to be called something else: _Mary
Shelley's
Frnakenstein_ is then a copyright work-around.
ED
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