Copyrights with Author names/Book names/Music artist Names

Copyrights on Titles

[adtoth]

I'm beginning a commercial website which will list names of Books/Author Names and Music artist Names/Album names. Would this effect copy right infringement? Im only listing names and nothing else.
Pl. help!
Thanks!

[stapel]

Content (textbooks, recorded songs, novels, etc) may be copyrighted. Facts (names, dates, the existance of titles, etc) can not be.

Noting that Author Smith has written "The Great American Novel" (a bald statement of fact) is not the same as presenting substantial portions of Smith's novel as being your own work (plagiarism).

You are quite welcome to list factual information.

Eliz.

[digitalghost]

And, titles can not be copyrighted. So, you could write a novel, and call it, 'Gone With The Wind', or 'Black Beauty'. As long as your Gone With The Wind isn't about Tara and surviving the Civil War and Black Beauty isn't told from the perspective of a horse... ;)

[adtoth]

Thanks! for your replies. In that I could list things on my commercial website as -
Music -
Bryan Adams
Eminem
Metallica
Michael Jackson

Book Authors -
Dan Brown
Mario Puzo
James Patterson

and allow people to click on them to blog with each other based on their favorite.

Right?
THanks!

[hunderdown]

Yes, you could do that. It might help, of course, if you kicked off the conversations with your own comments, provocative, thoughtful, or ....