FWIW, titles aren't "copyrightable" (is that a word?). That's why there can be several songs, books, etc. with the same title (for instance, both GD and CSN have songs named "Dark Star"). Alex's "layman's suspicion" is correct--it's the content that is copyrighted . This is not to say that there isn't a "correct" title, or a particular one that was on the material submitted for copyright.
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:21:33 +0800 From: "Alex Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Never Trust A Woman
Intriguing thought: should the title of "Never Trust A Woman" really be "Goin' To The Country"?!
I've been browsing round the copyright section of the Library of Congress. The Brent Mydland stuff is pretty confusing, but I've tried to make sense of it in the extracts below.
I'm not clear about the significance of titles registered with the Library of Congress for copyright as compared to those registered with ASCAP/BMI or indeed those used on CDs. My layman's suspicion is that what is significant for copyright is the work itself, rather than the title. There's also the oddity that in some cases the title in the Library of Congress database is different from the title on the copyright application (for reasons that aren't clear to me).
Hair-splitting from a librarian, Richard
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