RE: RARA-AVIS: Double your title?

Words from the Monastery (anthony.dauer@erols.com)
Sun, 16 May 1999 07:17:49 -0400 Trademark ... copyright has nothing to do with titles.

volente Deo,

Anthony Dauer
Alexandria, Virginia

http://www.adau.net/

Practice random acts ... of Xeroxing

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> From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
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> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 7:46 AM
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Double your title?
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> On Sat, 15 May 1999 "Jerry Buck" <PeteCastle@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
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> [SNIP]
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> > 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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