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This is the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. I'm often asked the

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question, how come there are so
many books with the same title. Well,

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if you're writing a book and have
an idea for a title, you

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might think you can copyright it.
Well you cannot, but you can trademark

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it. Copyrights protect original works of
authorship, including books, plays, movies,

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music, poetry, song, computer, software, and architecture. Trademarks,

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on the other hand, protect words, symbols, phrases, and or

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designs that set apart the goods of
one party from those of others, and

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a service mark is the same thing
for services. Another big difference between copyrights

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and trademarks is that you can have
copyright protection as soon as your work is

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published, but you have to register
and get approval to have trademark protection.

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So book titles are among the list
of things that cannot be copyrighted. Titles

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aren't considered intellectual property, but are
only short phrases not eligible for copyright.

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I'll have more on the copyright versus
trademark issue coming up, and there's a

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whole list of other things besides titles
you cannot copyright. That's the book Club

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