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Why book titles aren't protected by copyright

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You can spend months agonizing over the perfect, poetic title for your debut novel, and absolutely anyone can legally steal it. United States intellectual property law refuses to copyright short phrases or titles. If you write a bestseller tomorrow, a competing author can legally release a completely different book with the exact same name the very next day.

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