Quoting Frank Duignan (frank.duignan at gmail.com):
> Are register names copyright-able?
Copyright extends only to creative works (in areas of endeavour defined
by statute), so no.
Also, looking on a finer level, a work's purely functional elements (as
opposed to ones having creative nature) are not copyright-eligible.
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