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>Once one of my adgroups got suspended since it contained a copyrighted word.

I suspect you mean a trademark. You can not [normally #] copyright a word.

# I'd love to hear from anyone who's got evidence of a word being copyrighted. I can imagine that a really long poem length word could be considered to be a work for the purposes of copyright?




Yeah sorry... snow has frozen my brain. Trademark :) thanks.




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