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Welcome to the WZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. In a previous segment,

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I talked earlier about copyrighting titles,
something you cannot do when it comes

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to books, and here are some
other things that cannot be copywritten. Names

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of products or services, names of
businesses, organizations or groups. Pseudonyms of

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individuals, including pan or stage names, catchwords, catchphrases, mottos, slogans

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that kind of thing, and listings
of ingredients is in recipes, labels,

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or formulas. Now, the alternative, of course, is you can trademark

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a book title, more difficult to
get than a copyright, But if you

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were to go that route, it's
the US Patent and Trademark Office that you'd

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want to connect with. Like a
lot of laws in the books, there's

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a fair amount of gray area.
Can books legally have the same title?

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Yes, they can. However,
copyright laws restrict the use of identical titles

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for copyrighted works. That means that
if two books share the same title,

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the authors or publishers must make certain
that there's no confusion between the two.

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So there's a little behind the scenes
look at book titles and more, which

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is all part of the book Club
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