Copyright Question

[hienben]

Does anyone know how I can copyright the title of a future film/book project? Thanks in advance!

 

[Blaine]

You can't copyright the title.

 

[hienben]

Thanks for your prompt reply Blaine. So I can copyright a work or a work in progress? How do I go about doing this?

 

[Owen]

In US or in UK?

 

[Blaine]

For the US:

www.copyright.gov/
www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
www.whatiscopyright.org/


For the UK:

www.britishcopyright.org/page.asp?page=64&site=main

 

[Paul Coleman]

Some US info:

Scripts...

The title of a program or series of programs cannot be copyrighted;

The general idea or concept for a program is not copyrightable. Copyright will protect the literary or dramatic expression of an author’s idea but not the idea itself; and

Registration for a particular script applies only to the copyrightable material in that script.

“Blanket” registration for future scripts or for a series as a whole is not available. (However, an unpublished collection of material may be registered with one application.)

For a work in progress, you can copyright it again and again as you add to it.

http://www.copyright.gov/forms/formpai.pdf

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