6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character: report
nypost.com
A UK mother was left “absolutely devastated” after her daughter’s passport application was denied because she was named after a popular “Game of Thrones” character.
  • Something Burger 🍔English
    23310·
    3 months ago

    Khaleesi, 6, a passport was denied — with officials telling her she needed Warner Brothers’ approval because it owns the name’s trademark.

    Typical capitalist brain rot.

    Shouldn’t they also use the same bullshit excuse when issuing an ID card? At least make the dumb rules consistent.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      862·
      3 months ago

      By this logic, everyone named Mickey should be paying Disney a royalty…

      Wait shit retract delete delete DISNEY I DID JOT SAY ANYTHING DONT GET ANY FUCKING IDEAS NOW.

      • Something Burger 🍔English
        202·
        3 months ago

        Mickey is a real name, though. It wasn’t invented by Disney.

        Not that their lawyers would care lmao

        • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Yeah if anyone ever expected copyright law or lawyers to be even remotely logical or sane, they’ve got another thing coming to them…

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error.

      They screwed up, and have admitted they screwed up. Did nobody read the article?

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      Does the WB even own that trademark? You have to manually apply for each one. Also, trademarks are specific to commercial operations and two companies are allowed to share if they aren’t in the same business. I don’t think trademark laws even apply here.

    • anothermember@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Shouldn’t they also use the same bullshit excuse when issuing an ID card? At least make the dumb rules consistent.

      To be fair, ID cards aren’t common in the UK and passports are very common. This is quite probably the first time she’s applied for any form of ID. Not agreeing with it, just saying.