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Originally Posted by crane3
It does look to me like the copyright office is just as corrupt as the patent office.
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I may misunderstand your point.
With hundreds of thousands of new English language books published every year, and tens of millions already published, I don't expect them all to have titles never used before. Such a rule would force almost all novel titles to be long, since the short ones are taken. Repeat titles with a different author name are not considered plagiarism as the word is normally defined.
Your posts on this board are copyrighted in the US. No need for registration -- in the US, copyright is automatic. But neither I, nor the owner of Mobileread, violated your US copyright, because I made fair use.
Without being able to make extensive quotation, as I and others frequently do on this board, our speech would be muzzled. That's why I am a strong supporter fair use under US copyright law, and similar legal doctrines in many other countries.