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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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DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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Presumably they won’t get sued by IP (“intellectual property”) trolls.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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Until they register in that language too

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DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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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

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

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