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Does choosing a real life celebrity's name violate the naming policy?
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Eduard Khil XD
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-02-16 11:46:11 UTC
Hi.

For instance if I chose to call myself Ian McKellan and someone reported this name as inappropriate (Ian McKellan is somewhat of a gay rights activist, and it does say in the naming policy that you can't have the name of someone who's affiliated with political movements.

By the same token, lets say I once made a character called Tom Cruise (or bought one on the Bazaar with that name) but then I realised I didn't like being called this any more.

Would CCP let me change my name?

PS: would love an ISD/dev response to this.
Effect One
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-02-16 13:33:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Effect One
1. Pretty sure it just states a general prohibition against taking names of legal entities while ensuring that all legal responsibility for breeching it falls on you, the player; and
2. Probably not.

The name, if an issue at all, would only become one if said celebrity complained about it, which isn't likely.

[EDIT] It should also be noted that CCP don't allow name changes. The best you could hope for would be a rename to Caldari Citizen 00001684651 or something similar.

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Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-02-16 14:37:45 UTC
Effect One wrote:
1. Pretty sure it just states a general prohibition against taking names of legal entities while ensuring that all legal responsibility for breeching it falls on you, the player; and
2. Probably not.

The name, if an issue at all, would only become one if said celebrity complained about it, which isn't likely.

[EDIT] It should also be noted that CCP don't allow name changes. The best you could hope for would be a rename to Caldari Citizen 00001684651 or something similar.


In the case where a name is inappropriate they let you change it after they have made you Caldari Citizen 12043459305. Through a petition or something.
Rashnu Gorbani
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-02-16 15:18:06 UTC
As far as I'm aware people's names don't fall under copyright or any nonsense like that. So it would be weird to disallow that. If I were togive my RL name to one of my characters, there could be 100 people having exact same name, or more if it's really common family and given names. I guess depends on the intention, and since that's not really possible to prove, what you actually do with the name...
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#5 - 2014-02-16 15:20:13 UTC
Effect One wrote:
[EDIT] It should also be noted that CCP don't allow name changes. The best you could hope for would be a rename to Caldari Citizen 00001684651 or something similar.

They allow name changes, one of my alts had to have her name changed.

Oh god.
Serene Repose
#6 - 2014-02-16 18:41:23 UTC
Any name is good as long as it's not Brad Pitt. He'll sue you if you even use it in a forum post....ooops.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#7 - 2014-02-16 18:44:45 UTC
Theoretically yes, functionally no.

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Josef Djugashvilis
#8 - 2014-02-16 19:33:56 UTC
If you like a lot of pvp action, using a name like, George Bush, will work really, really well.

It is not an offensive name in itself, so I see no reason why CCP would ban it.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#9 - 2014-02-16 19:45:26 UTC
Like I said in one of the previous "celebrity threads"... I have this hunch that the people who make these threads are the celebrities themselves just trawling for attention.

Hi Ian McKellan!

How did you Veterans start?
Milo Manara
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-02-16 22:14:44 UTC
So if, for example, i would chose the name of a famous cartoonist that draws naked women i would be in trouble?
Yonis Kador
KADORCORP
#11 - 2014-02-16 23:53:52 UTC
Judging from the 113 Rhiannas, 89 Madonnas, 52 Lady Gagas, 46 Justin Biebers and one Brittney Spears, (just one Brittney? Really people?) I'm guessing no. There's even a Michael Eisner and he's been CEO of The Walt Disney Company since 2007.

YK
Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#12 - 2014-02-17 04:41:52 UTC
I would stay away from naming yourself after a celebrity lawyer.

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