Re: Lost World?

["Cunningham, Betty" <bcunning@nssi.com>]

     >>Jeff Poling (jpoling@infinet.com) wrote:
     >>>I noticed that the Jurassic Park sequel by Michael Crichton, _The 
     Lost >>>World_, comes out in a couple of weeks.
     
     >>Isn't that title taken (by Conan Doyle)? :)
     
      >It is. Can he still use it, though?
     
     >Titles cannot be copyrighted. But using the same title as a previous 
     >work shows something of a lack of originality.
     
     
     Maybe it's a title in homage to the original story and the other 3 
     movies by the same name?  
     
     (1925-produced in part by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) 
     (1948-stock footage reused)
     (1960-Irwin Allen)
     
     -Betty Cunningham
     (resent after our net server at work ate about all my out-going mail)