: Re: Can I use a phrase from song lyrics as the title of my book? Are the lyrics "signed, sealed, and delivered" copyrighted? I want to use these words as part of the title of a book to be published

@Sarah872

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I believe that phrase comes from the United States Postal Service...as if to say "I'm as right as the mail." An example I have used is "Games without Frontiers" (in French) as was used in the title sequence of the song by Peter Gabriel. This was an academic work but I was given no grief for it as the expression was considered part of the "public domain" as it related to trying to describe two World Wars. (I used it in the context of the European Union attempting integration.) "Signed, sealed, delivered" sounds like part of the public domain if ever there was one to me.

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