I agree that the title of a single work will not be granted trademark registration. In responding to the original query, I combined copyright and trademark concepts imprecisely. Your response makes a good point, that trademark and copyright serve different functions and represent different bundles of rights. Also, anyone can claim a copyright on a writing merely by attaching a copyright notice, but an effective trademark requires registration, review and approval by the PTO. As to movies though, so many movies now have licensed products associated with them, as with any Disney animation, a movie title is likely to be trademarked for the associated products.
Madelyn Littman
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