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I suspect you`d be looking at copyrighting rather than trademarked. To that end, whomever owns the copyright to the Alice in Wonderland story would probably have to license it to you, if they so chose. But, I`m not an attorney. A better idea than only surfing the Web on this specific question would be to find an intellectual properties attorney and spend the consulting fee to find out specifically. :-)

You MUST get legal advice on this for a few reasons:

1. To protect your business
2. To prevent being sued
3. You might be pleasantly surprised in that you may be able to use the words but not the images

Peter

I think it`s a cool idea and would add a lot of texture to the stories we read; I`ve always wondered what a little Alice would smell like (lol) ... I just check a pop-up version we have and it references "in the style of" and "faithful to" the original, but doesn`t go beyond that for rights acknowledgement (do invest in a little legal before you get too deep down the rabbit hole!~)  Here is a nice summary of Public Domain Works and Wiki is always great too; imho you and the public are all equally able to use anything from this (and Wizard of Oz? and) but like Peter said you need to see about protecting your business idea too (Disney/you can trademark just about anything, but it`s going to be based on artwork and not the exclusive right to the words).

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