All in a name

The individual words "Bohemian Rhapsody" certainly cannot be copyrighted nor in fact can the combination of the two words. If Queen registered them as a trademark you would have problems but then the symbol of a capital R in a circle would have to appear next to the words in any appearance of those words. I have a play called "...and then you die!" there is at least one other book and several articles of the same title and no-one has ever said anything to me. If the play was about the song? That might create issues. You do realise that Joe Public might assume they were going to see a play about the song. There have been some interesting cases, Bacardi and Coca Cola once tried to get a playwright to remove several disparaging remarks from a play that referred to Bacardi and Coke and the judge advised that for the purposes of the artistic world the words Bacardi and Coke had become such common parlance that they could not limit their use. The same thing happened to the guy who wrote "Blood Brothers" when he named a play "Tupperware Man" and was very rude about Tupperware. He had to stop using the Trademark name Tupperware in his title but could continue with the remarks in the text. Here's another funny one. The Coca Cola Company have recently trademarked the word "Summer". But only when it is presented in their copyrighted Dynamic Ribbon Font. I hope this helps Johnny, my answer would be you're OK go ahead. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au