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From: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re:  Equitable Mathematics
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:19:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GyXRE-00023I-Cr@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

Just a small point about

From: Michael Barr <barr@barrs.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:17 am
Subject: categories: Re:  Equitable Mathematics

> You would have to ask a lawyer about this, but
> in general book titles cannot be copyrighted and I would assume the
> same is true of journals.

You cannot copyright a title but you can protect a well known title from
infringement.

You can title your new book "My travels through the Pyrenees"  without
worrying whether someone else has already used the title.  But you
cannot title it "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone."

Colin




             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-19 16:19 Colin McLarty [this message]
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2006-12-24 22:38 Toby Bartels
2006-12-19 23:13 Donovan Van Osdol
2006-12-19 18:18 Andree Ehresmann
2006-12-19 16:13 Gabor Lukacs
2006-12-19  0:18 Marta Bunge
2006-12-19  0:15 Michael Barr
2006-12-18 18:18 joyal.andre
2006-12-19 14:44 ` Bas Spitters

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