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No. A trademark is to tell a customer that a certain good was made by a certain person or company. This is prevent confusion over which company makes a thing. It's why you can't create an operating system kernel and call it Linux. You can create a clothing company and call it Linux though because no one would be confused that Linux clothing is in any way related to the computer operating system component.
Band names can and are trademarked. So you can't call your new band "The Beatles" or "Five Finger Death Punch". Titles are subject to copyright though, which is a separate thing altogether.
Anal- I think you can call your song "Mr. Brightside" or "Paint it Black" if you really want. Idk why you would though..
Yeah, you'd make your version basically impossible to search for unless it massively blows up
Can't say I see many people using the "ANAL" acronym in lowercase... lol
It always used to be IANAL on reddit. Why did they drop the I?
The general consensus of the internet seems to be no, although this surely varies to some degree based on the laws in whichever country you're in.
Before anyone tries the other avenue of attack, titles to things generally cannot be copyrighted, either. Content of a work can be, but the name of it cannot.
You can have 40 songs all named the same. No legal recourse. IANAL, JAM.
(Just a musician).
Not a lawyer, probably depends on context.