• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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    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.com
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      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.

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      3 months ago

      Aren’t they aware that the TV series is based on a book series…? If anyone owns the name it’d be George R.R. Martin…

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      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?

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      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.

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      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.