Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. In a previous segment,
I talked earlier about copyrighting titles, something you cannot do when it comes
to books, and here are some other things that cannot be copywritten. Names
of products or services, names of businesses, organizations or groups. Pseudonyms of
individuals, including pan or stage names, catchwords, catchphrases, mottos, slogans
that kind of thing, and listings of ingredients is in recipes, labels,
or formulas. Now, the alternative, of course, is you can trademark
a book title, more difficult to get than a copyright, But if you
were to go that route, it's the US Patent and Trademark Office that you'd
want to connect with. Like a lot of laws in the books, there's
a fair amount of gray area. Can books legally have the same title?
Yes, they can. However, copyright laws restrict the use of identical titles
for copyrighted works. That means that if two books share the same title,
the authors or publishers must make certain that there's no confusion between the two.
So there's a little behind the scenes look at book titles and more, which
is all part of the book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio