From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in   time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:45:29 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

<<*Titles* cannot be copyrighted -- story titles, book titles, song titles,
any kind of title.

--Ted White>>

Thanks Ted. I didn't have a clue, and it's good to know.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:41 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:20 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?

> At 05:58 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Ernest Lilley wrote:
> >Hard to copyright a phrase that predates copyright law.
>
> True.  I don't think you can copyright a phrase anyway.  Trademark it
> maybe, but not copyright...otherwise I'd just write a program to generate
> all possible combinations of the 5,000 most commonly used words, print
the
> results and send them to the PTO and sue everyone for infringement.  If I
> had enough paper anyway... ;-)
>
> You might, however, want to be careful of the confusion that using an
> existing title within the genre of SF (STF, Skiffy or whatever) might
> generate.  It could hurt you..."Oh, yeah, I read that years ago..."
<ding!>
> No Sale!

*Titles* cannot be copyrighted -- story titles, book titles, song titles,
any kind of title.

--Ted White