[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Some things simply can't be copyrighted. Like a song title. Look up songs titled "Sail Away" and you will find several, and all are quite different.

Movie titles or book titles are the same way. Anyone can write a book now called "50 shades of Grey" and as long it uses no charterer like in the other book, and is a book with no plot points like the, it is fine. Someone can make a movie called Star Wars, and as long as no Jedi knights and plot points are the same, it is OK.

Some things are protected by international trademark. The Olympic rings are trademarked and you can't use them in anything except official Olympic sanctioned events.

There is no such thing as an international trademark, or an international patent.

Each country deals with IP differently (or chooses not to... did someone say China?). A trademark or patent is only good in the jurisdiction in which it is registered (or used) or granted in the case of patents.