CocoCami

6th Mar 2007

General questions

Does anybody know what the first movie to have a product placement was? I am losing sleep over this, please help.

Answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement.

CocoCami

6th Mar 2007

General questions

What happens when a film with the same title as (or very similar title to) another film is released? Is there some sort of legal problem? A producer couldn't copyright a word like 'Jaws', for instance, or a person's name, so surely anyone else can use them. What's to stop someone making a film called 'Harry Potter' and coining it in?

Answer: You can trademark a title or word in conjunction with a movie or book title. There's plenty of lawsuits where a title is too close to an existing well-known title, and most often the case is settled on behalf of the original title. Exceptions are when the title was well-known before the book or movie, such as "Titanic."

CocoCami

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