Website with same title as Book

Book published before website was started

[mm1220]

Are there any issues surrounding a website and a book having the same title/domain?

Assuming that the website is well established but that the book was first published well before the website went live, I would like to know is whether or not the book publisher (or the author) could force the website to change its name or lay claim to the domain?

[digitalghost]

Titles can not be copyrighted.

[JollyK]

Titles can't be copyrighted, but if the website with the name of the book is all about the book and capitalizing on the book, then if there was a dispute, ICANN may decide that the domain was registered in bad faith and award it to the book author/publisher.

If it's something like The_DaVinci_Code.com and the site is devoted to Leonardo DaVinci's little known contributions to encryption algorithms and programming code, or if your name is DaVinci and you are a programmer, and your software code is available on your site, then you'd probably be okay.

If it's something like Harry_Potter.com and the site is all about the Harry Potter books, that could be a bad deal.

Context and content surely have something to do with this.

JK

[edit for spelling]

[mm1220]

Thanks for that guys.