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by edaemon 2561 days ago
I would also be worried about trademark/copyright issues.
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I don't know enough about those laws to know the legal status of this, but that would definitely be a concern for me too. Also the lion iconography rules out any argument that the name isn't 100% GoT inspired.
Copyright is for non-commercial use, IIRC. If you’re not selling anything, it doesn’t apply. Not sure if that’s the case here.
This is simply not true, sadly. Copyright applies regardless of intentions or outcomes; it’s only in certain limited fields that some activities are somewhat exempted (i.e. backups). This is clearly not one of them.
Was referring to this:

https://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair...

“The less commercial the use, the smaller the portion used, the lesser the import of that portion of the work to the whole, and the lesser the effect on the market for or value of the work, the more likely it will be that fair use doctrine will apply.”

Can you copyright a person's surname (as it was used before GOT)?

Trademark is different.

That I agree. I was just correcting the view of the parent comment, which was wrong on its own.
> If you’re not selling anything, it doesn’t apply.

That's not even remotely true.