Reply To: Got Emailed by a Faux about Copyright Laws!

[fstopper89]

I just looked up the US Copyright website. It says that names can’t be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked. I don’t have time now to look up all those rules though, so I’ll look at it more later.

Before I started doing photography as a business I came up with a name I thought was totally catchy and I had planned to make it my official business name in the future. I honestly came up with it all on my own. Later, to my dismay, I found a bazillion other photographers using that name and realized how cheesy it sounded! It was Flash In Time Photography. Ugh, totally fauxtog-cheesy-stupid name!