6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character
6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character
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.
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The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside, the UK just decided that a corporation can own your name and prevent you from enjoying the rights of your citizenship.
That's pretty fucked.
Edit - Apparently they did backtrack. But it's still amazing that anyone even thought that was a thing.
Khaleesi is a nice name aside from the fact that I think it's a title...
Khaleesi is a title, not a name. In the fictional world of "Game of Thrones," it means "queen" in the Dothraki language and is given to the wife of a Khal, the leader of a Dothraki tribe. The character Daenerys Targaryen is often referred to as Khaleesi. - chat gpt
Ya... It's a title.
I've had students named Happy, Classic, Diamonds, Epiphany, Scorpio, you name it. I wouldn't even cock my head to the side with a Khaleesi on my roll sheet at this point.
You name it is the weirdest of them all.
A-aron?
Classic? Who in the right mind!
Hippies.
You know the Gilmores?
There are literally people named "Princess". Not that I think that does wonders for their life either.
The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error.
No, they can't. That's not how copyright works. Read the damn article.
But how can I be outraged then?
I am glad to hear they're not officially taking corporate feudalism for a ride.
The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside
It's nice sounding as a name though, I wouldn't be in a rush to condemn someone for it. Now when it's the 5th "unique" spelling of Madison that starts to get a little ridiculous.
It's a nice sounding name if you don't know where it comes from. Considering how well known Game of Thrones is it sounds like "I'm sorry your parents are idiots."
Fair point!
It seems that there is only two restrictions in the UK on naming a child at birth. That is that it must fit on a single line on the birth certificate and not contain numeric characters except things like ii to refer to the second.
If you want to change your name later in life there is a lot of restrictions but as far as I know copyright enforcement is still not one. You can find a list here if you are interested.
I dated a girl named Mercedes.
Mercedes is actually an old Spanish name too though.
Mercedes was the name of Emil Jellinek's daughter, Emil has the idea to develop sports cars, he designed and commissioned cars from an engineering company and named the model-line after her.
Are you saying they should just use lojban?
Presumably they won't get sued by IP ("intellectual property") trolls.
Until they register in that language too
Perhaps you're correct.
I tried looking into copyright status of Lojban and found nothing.
I'm pretty sure wp:Láadan was released into the public domain.
Láadan word for "queen."
http://www.laadanlanguage.org/l2e.html
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Fwiw, the passport office also backtracked. But now I have a new Internet rabbit hole, so thanks for that!