I must tell you that the titles are not copyrighted under the law.

HOWEVER, if you intend your book to be the first in a series of books under this title, that is, if you intend to create a brand from your books, you could register it. I’m thinking here of the type of book series like the “Chicken Soup” series by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield. Of course, other series of fiction books are created and sold; under the Star Wars and Star Trek brands, for example.

Once you establish a series of books under your title, the title can acquire secondary use as a brand name for your books, in effect, the trademark for your products.

In that case, you can simply use the “TM” symbol against him.

The “TM” mark indicates a trademark and, as you probably know, functions like the copyright symbol “©”, in that it is a notice to others that it is a trademark, identifiable by the owner of the product. , which they are using. to sell your merchandise, and others should not try to pass off or sell work/merchandise using that title. It’s unofficial and while it doesn’t carry the weight of the official “®” trademark symbol you get when registering with the UK Intellectual Property Office (which we got for our company name duly annotated ®), it’s recognized universally.

Once you look for it in the everyday world, you’ll notice TM branding everywhere, for titles, names, and logos.

Certain characters from popular authors even have the TM symbol next to them. Clive Cussler’s “Dirk Pitt” character is a name that comes to mind. Harry Potter to; not just as a character name, but as a brand name, since that name is always in the titles of the Harry Potter books. Spider-Man creator Stan Lee registered and licensed his own name, and Tom Cruise won a case against a website that used his name to sell unrelated products. Therefore, he may be able to put a trademark to good use to help him fight unauthorized or unlicensed use.