Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:47:11 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Colleen Cahill <ccah at earthlink.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Yes, Copyright has some interesting things in it.  At
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ my favorite question is "Can I protect
my sighting of Elvis?"  Answer at
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#elvis.
Colleen

At 06:45 PM 4/11/2005, you wrote:
><<*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
>
>Home/Office: 703 371 0226
>EJ: 757 581 4146
>email: elilley at mindspring.com
>
>-----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

Colleen R. Cahill
ccah at earthlink.net
Librarian by Profession, Reviewer by Avocation, Reader by Addiction