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

submitted 3 months ago by MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying they should just use lojban?

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Presumably they won't get sued by IP ("intellectual property") trolls.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until they register in that language too

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

unáhizh

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Fwiw, the passport office also backtracked. But now I have a new Internet rabbit hole, so thanks for that!