How Can I Get the Copyright for a Title of a Book?

As others have said in their answers, you can copyright your entire manuscript, but you cannot copyright the title of a book.Titles of books cannot be copyrighted, and you will often see multiple books with the same titleespecially if the title is a single word or if its a common phrase.However, there are creative elements that can be trademarked.

People can apply for trademarks for their character names or the name of a universe or even the use of a unique phrase in certain creative uses. The owner of the trademark can then take action against people who use the trademark without fair use or proper licensing. For example, The Lord of the Rings is trademarked, and therefore other authors cannot use those five words in that order to sell a variety of goods and services, including books but also keychains, collectible plates, etc.

Applying for a trademark in the United States is a high-effort, sometimes-expensive process. If you believe this is the right route for you, start going through the process orientation a the U.S.

Patent and Trademark Offices website: Trademark process. Be aware that this area of the law is a little messy, however. In 2018, author Faleena Hopkins sued several people for using the word Cocky in the titles of their romance novels.

Hopkins had been granted a trademark to use cocky in romance titles. She was successfully able to convince Amazon to pull down some of these titles, even if they werent romance novels, and even if the novel had been published before Hopkins was granted the trademark. The result of the court case is that the trademark was struck down, as the court ruled that cocky was not a unique term.

(Source: The long Cocky-gate nightmare is over)The media reports on this has led to quite a bit of confusion between copyrights and trademarks within book titles in the industry. While unique names like Harry Potter and Jack Reacher can likely be trademarked, very few authors go through the expense to trademark something that can successfully defended as unique in a book title.When a work (such as a manuscript) is copyrighted, there is a legal basis for the author to defend themselves against an author whose work might cause confusion in the marketplacewhich doesnt have to be the title.

For example, the name Jack Reacher isnt trademarked, but an author who writes a novel in which a man named Jack Reacher is the action heroor even if he shares certain physical or mental features with Lee Childs characterwould likely be found in violation of Childs copyrighted manuscripts. (The author Diane Capri, who writes The Hunt for Jack Reacher novels, does so with the express written consent of Lee Child.)The vast majority of authors simply attempt to title books something that can easily be found on search engines and book retailer sitesand not easily confused with other authors work

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Is it considered wrong for me to go through my husbandu2019s phone if I feel like heu2019s talking to another woman?

Maybe. Ask your husband if you can go through his phone. If he says itu2019s okay, then itu2019s okay.

If he says no, then itu2019s wrong. Going through his phone without asking him or if he says no is a recipe for divorce. For the relationship to succeed, you two have to talk to each other, not sneak behind each otheru2019s backs.

Cheating by invading his phone without his consent is as bad for the relationship as cheating by having sex on the side without the spouseu2018s consent. Going through his phone without him knowing sets the relationship on a path that encourages him to do things without you knowing as well. My husband hands me his phone whenever he drives.

I read off whatu2019s on his phone to him, and he answers any questions I have about anything I see.Of course your husband is talking to other women. Half the population is female, and women are allowed to work outside the home these days.

Enough of the working population is female that he might have to talk to women to get work done. A sitcom cliche is the husband often talks to the wifeu2019s best friend, sister, coworker, etc. , in order to organize a surprise party, and the wife ruins it all year getting unreasonably jealous for no reason and sneaking around to try to spy on him and figure out whatu2019s going on.

A lot of TV episodes would be total non-issues if people just talk to each other honestly. (My husband and I decided that surprises are always bad. Even surprise parties and surprise gifts are bad.

No surprises.)Instead of going through his phone without his knowledge, first examine what you think and feel. Why do you think heu2019s talking to another woman, and even if he is, why does it worry you so much that you canu2019t just talk to your husband about it?

Once you figure yourself out, share with him what you think and feel, and ask him to help you to deal with it. It can be as simple as, u201cIt looks like youu2019re having a lot of fun on your phone. Iu2019m feeling left out.

You havenu2019t smiled that much with me in a long time. What are you reading?u201d Or, it can be, u201cIu2019m feeling lonely and insecure.

I wish I can have more time with you. Even when youu2019re with me, youu2019re always staring at that phone. What does your phone have thatu2019s so fascinating?

u201d If you want him to be honest with you, you have to be honest with yourself first, and you have to share that honesty with him next.Right or wrong doesnu2019t matter here. Right or wrong completely misses the point of being in a relationship.

Whatu2019s important is that going through his phone will weaken your relationship unless you first earn his consent

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How many programming language does a professional programmer know?

I earn my money by writing Software. I do programming for more than 30 years now.

I do not know everything in programming. There is a lot which I just ignore. But nevertheless - lets asume I am professional after 30 years.

I guess I have written software in 15, maybe 20 languages of different types. Imperative, functional, logical. Objectoriented independend if the programming language is supporting OOP.

Generative - independend if the programming language is supporting it. I wrote Assembly on serveral Systems, on several CPUs.That does not make me a professional programmer.

A professional programmer is able to solve problems. Professional programmers identifies the problem, analyse their inabilities, do recherches, learn to understand and to solve the problem, and solve the problem. Therefore I usually need one programming language.

I usually use C to do so. There is no private project within the last years which is not written in C. I even write Assembly programms with C: a JIT-Compiler which generates Operation Codes and run them natively on the processor.

C is the language which supports me the most. Usually I do not need other languages. I know the concepts of other languages, the ideas behind them.

I can express almost everything with C even if C does not support me in doing so. Like C does not support me with object oriented programming. But that does not mean that you cannot write object oriented software in C or Assembly.

You need to know the concept to use the concept. You dont need a specialized language for a concept. I know a lot of programming languages, and a lot of people say Your choice of the language depends on the problem.

Thats true. Sometimes. Often it makes things more complicated, because you cannot be a professional in several languages at the same time.

A software that has to solve several problems with several programming languages creates additional problems. Using less languages makes you a professional for this language. Hence, it is easier for you to solve problems in that language even if there is a specialized language explicitly for that problem - but you would solve the problem like a rookie.

You will make stupid bugs. Writing bugs is not a key feature of a professional developer.The choice of the language depends on the problem.

My problem is to write valuable software. There is one language where I can give more guarantees than in other languages. This is the language I know the best and I use every day.

Maybe I am not that fast in implementing things, but after implementing them, they run fast, they have less bug potential and they are maintainable for updates or new feature request. And for refactoring I have a compiler that supports me. Maybe I am not the fastest in implementing, but I still have code in use which far more than 20 years old.

Its once written and reused for serveral times.So the more professional you become the more languages you forget. Once you become a professinoal you have found a working solution for your main problem: Writing professional software with as less bugs as possible.