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6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character (nypost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (23 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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