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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Welcome to Otherworlds! (announcing an alternative to sf-lovers)
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 10:59:52 EST
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In article <710@leadsv.UUCP> sas@leadsv.UUCP (Scott Stewart) writes:
>A question for those on the net. Since this is a SF fanzine, could their 
>be a problem calling it "Otherworlds" when Walden Books has their free
>SF book club called the "Otherworlds Club"? Could this be a copywright
>infringement?

Under US law you can't secure copyright on a name or title.  (There are
at least two books named _Final Cut_, both lambasting the film industry,
and their are at least two novels named _The Devil's Advocate_, one if
which really IS about a devil's advocate (in the Roman Catholic sense).)
It is possible, though unlikely, that Dalton's could object on trademark
grounds.  And no, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pedantic and that's just as
good.
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D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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