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I would also be worried about trademark/copyright issues.
by edaemon 7y ago
I would also be worried about trademark/copyright issues.
- slg 7y agoI don't know enough about those laws to know the legal status of this, but that would definitely be a concern for me too. Also the lion iconography rules out any argument that the name isn't 100% GoT inspired.
- chabes 7y agoCopyright is for non-commercial use, IIRC. If you’re not selling anything, it doesn’t apply. Not sure if that’s the case here.
- bityard 7y ago> If you’re not selling anything, it doesn’t apply. That's not even remotely true.
- toyg 7y agoThis is simply not true, sadly. Copyright applies regardless of intentions or outcomes; it’s only in certain limited fields that some activities are somewhat exempted (i.e. backups). This is clearly not one of them.
- quickthrower2 7y agoCan you copyright a person's surname (as it was used before GOT)? Trademark is different.
- toyg 7y agoThat I agree. I was just correcting the view of the parent comment, which was wrong on its own.
- chabes 7y agoWas referring to this: https://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair_use.html https://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair... “The less commercial the use, the smaller the portion used, the lesser the import of that portion of the work to the whole, and the lesser the effect on the market for or value of the work, the more likely it will be that fair use doctrine will apply.”