Are song titles alone (not when used with other things) subject to trademark?

  • BitSound@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Definitely not. There’s a whole genre of music that’s created for riding the coattails of popular songs. They wait for a song title by artists like Taylor Swift to be announced and then release their own songs with the same title. Sometimes they’re actually good, like this dude:

    https://genius.com/artists/Only-fire