|
He claimed that the names "Star Wars" and "Luke Skywalker" are protected by copyright law. The copyright.gov website states otherwise. If you think the US Copyright Office has made a mistake, then obviously you should contact them asap.
There is no "usually" about it. Copyright law does not protect names or phrases. Those are instead covered by trademark law, as I already pointed out.
Yes, but it's the creative work as a whole which is copyrighted. Copying even a small section of that creative work might well result in a copyright violation, but to claim that something is a copyright violation because it has 10 words in common with another creative work is just absurd - if that were the case, it would make it practically impossible to ever create anything new without first inventing your own language.
|