I became a Stephen King fan in late 1980's on a visit to see
relatives in Sydney. We stopped over at Uncle Bill's and
I wanted something to read. Tony had a copy of "It" by King.
Published 1986. Needless to say I became hooked!
Sometime in late the 1990's Cliff gave me a book called
"Danse Macabre" by Stepehn King. I started to read it but
found out it was non fiction. When I asked Cliff, "Why he
had given it to me?" he said "Because it is about writing
and you are interested in writing" It is about writing
horror stories, something I am not at all interested in
writing!
Well in about 3 years ago he handed me a book called
"Danse Macabre" but it was by Laurell Hamilton and it was
a vampire ficion book.
Both of us though that having two books of the same name was
impossible. I had thought that when you registered your book's
title for its international book number it locked that title
away, at least for 50 years. (About the average writing
life of an author.)
King's book was published in 1981 and Hamilton's book was
realeased in 2006. A difference of 25 years so is that the
extent of copywrite for titles? I knew it was for songs.
Does anyone out there have more info on this.
The next case is a movie.
Last year I watched on T.V. a movie called "Man of the House"
with Tommy Lee Jones. He plays the role of a Texas Ranger
living in a house to protect a group of cheerleaders who
witnessed a murder. I enjoyed it. It was released in 2005.
About two weeks ago Kirsten and I saw advertised on T.V. a
movie "Man of the House." We were at Cliff's house for the
weekend. She had just picked up a copy from Cliff's shop.
I said I wouldn't mind watching it again and when we got
home she could return the copy to the shop. So we watched.
It starred Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett and Jonathan Taylor
Thomas (from Tim Taylor the Tool Man show.) A completely
different movie, which had been released in 1995.
Now that is only 10 years between movies, yet they have the
same title, can anyone explain that one.
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