All in a name
Mon, 9 Feb 2009, 09:25 pmJohn Grim7 posts in thread
All in a name
Mon, 9 Feb 2009, 09:25 pmAmongst other things, I'm having a go at writing a musical of 'in sane' proportions... I'm one scene in, with a working title of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY...what I want to know is this, do Queen have a licence on those two words, or am I free to go ahead, without the fear of having to change the name once the flyers have been printed and paid for? Someone out there will know the amswer for sure ,and if I were a betting man I'd put my moolah on 'Na' or 'Logos'knowing the answer.
PS: If anyone steals the name I promise that I shall sue the pants off you!Ha!
Johnny Grim
A lad in sane productions
The short answer, and the
Tue, 10 Feb 2009, 09:36 amWalter Plinge
The short answer, and the most sensible one, is "talk to an arts lawyer".
The longer answer, which you should only take with the understanding that I am not a lawyer, is that Queen would have a case to sue you if it seemed your play was profiting off association with their song title. "Star Wars", for example, is not copyrightable in itself, but if I made a film and called it Star Wars, Lucasfilm was sue me in a shot. (This is all a separate issue to trademark law, as mentioned above.)