Hi All-- Patrick's right. Burroughs' Martian Stories (the way
they're usually referred to) have _never_ been called _The
Martian Chronicles_. Mars Stories, Martian Stories, Mars
Series, Martian Series, but never Chronicles. Bradbury came
much later than Burroughs, and SF&F fans found the
differences between Bradbury and Burroughs easy to
spot.
Trademarks are reserved for things like "Star Trek™", not for
individual titles. Titles cannot be copyrighted, so there is
no law against someone writing a book called _The Maltese
Falcon_, for example. But you ordinarily wouldn't want to do
that, mostly for marketing reasons. It does happen that two
books arrive on the market at the same time, from two
different publishers, but with the same name; if they're both
mysteries, for example, there is bound to be confusion, but
otherwise it's not a big deal.
Metta, Ivan
On Nov 26, 2007 3:17 PM, Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I, too, have read them all. I have the
Balentine
> editions from the 1960s. I've never seen them
packaged
> as "The Martian Chronicles." That is the name of
a
> very famous Bradbury collection of stories so
I'd
> expect Bradbury to have some trademark on the
title
> unless Burroughs used it first, in which
case
> Burroughs would have had a trademark. I know
titles
> are pretty slippery.
>
> Patrick King
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> --- sonny <
sforstater@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Yes, the Edgar Burroughs mars books at some
point
> > have been labeled and
> > sold as 'The Martian Chronicles' with a
volume
> > number, as well as the
> > original title.
> >
> > --- Jack Bludis <
buildsnburns@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > Boys, boys, play nice.
> > >
> > > I notice that when Brian said, Martian
Chronicles,
> > it
> > > wasn't all caps. He may have referred to
Burroughs
> > saga of
> > > Mars, which I think was several volumes or
at
> > least several
> > > stories.
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