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Originally Posted by spaze
I'm pretty sure some names are protected in some way even though they are not trademarked.
Otherwise I will write my own opus and call it The Holy Bible.
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You can. No doubt someone has. And, Rule 34 being what it is, it was probably porn.
Think of how many books
are called
The Holy Bible. They're not all the same book, or close to it. Some are different versions of the same text. Some are different translations of the same sources. Some are the, um, less mainstream opinions of various groups with only a nodding acquaintance with either of the first categories. And, yeah, some are probably not only way out in left field but over the wall, across a couple streets, and doing something unmentionable in an alley.
Of course, the big problem isn't what you
call it; it's whether people buy it. Someone who's searching for
The Holy Bible probably wants what you would normally think of under that name, and isn't going to want some whacked-out cult's edition, let alone some random book that isn't the Bible at all. And someone who wants to read something else probably isn't going to be looking under that name, either. If someone's friend tells them "hey, I just read this great mystery novel, except the author for some unaccountable reason called it the Bible" and that person goes to search for it, they're going to find thousands of the "other" Bible with yours buried in there somewhere, and give up. So you want to pick a name that people can find. Realistically, that requires trying for one with as few mistaken hits, as few collisions, and as little confusion as possible. You want the people trying to give you money to be able to do it as easily as possible.