• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Private corporations tying the hands of governments with copyright BS? If I want to name my daughter Khaleesi Skywalker Gandalf Bethooven SpaceJam that’s none of the governments nor some random corporations business. You can’t trademark a fucking name, wtf is this bullshit? You don’t get to decide what my name is, and you definitely don’t get to hamstring official government agencies in their duties because you’re butthurt about my sharing a name with your fictional character. Go fuck yourselves, disney. You slimy litigious fucks, this is why your brand is sinking.

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      2 months ago

      This isn’t a rule. Some bureaucrat was mistaken.

      The same thing happened to another girl a couple weeks ago.

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        2 months ago

        But it is indicitive of the Anglo-Saxon propensity for bootlicking. /Celtposting

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          2 months ago

          The French do their arguably dumber “you can’t call that thing you made what I call it even though it’s the same recipe, because it wasn’t grown where my ancient relatives made it,” though. Also France’s general xenophobia and owning a bona fide colony way later than the Anglos lol

          • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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            You’re talking about AOP (Appelation d’Origine Protégée / Protected Origin Naming). It makes senses because protected names are place names. You can’t call any sparkling wine “champagne”. It has to come from Champagne. However, you can call your raw milk cheese “faisselle” even if it wasn’t made in Rians, as faisselle isn’t a place.

            • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
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              2 months ago

              By that logic, you should object to cheese being labelled as “cheddar” cheese, because that’s a place too and you’ve almost certainly never seen cheese which came from there.

              It’s a stupid rule

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                2 months ago

                I wouldnt see it as stupid, people and governments want to protect what they produce.

                If it doesnt matter then have prosecco and everyone is happy.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, Disney is slimy, but for once this isn’t their doing. Some paper pusher overstepped their boundaries, that’s not on Disney.

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      2 months ago

      There are rules around names for children with food reason, if you name your child Hitler and Unwanted you can expect government intervention because it can be perceived as child abuse by putting undue stress and difficulty on the child.

      Which I believe is fair

      This name doesnt quite hit that mark but I would defend government intervention when naming children for outlier cases.

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        2 months ago

        All fair and good, but that kid has been named without government interference, so the name is legally given. So they shouldn’t be able to then deny an identification document later.