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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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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the initial application to get her daughter, Khaleesi, 6, a passport was denied — with officials telling her she needed Warner Brothers’ approval because it owns the name’s trademark.

This is a lot dumber than I thought. Yes, Khaleesi is a stupid name but it is their official name on government papers. They're seriously telling her "your daughter can't use her legal name without permission from Warner Brothers"?

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God help anyone with the last name McDonald!

[–] NormalPerson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old Mc*onald gonna need to lawyer up

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IAIA ... ooh

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or in this case IA IA IANAL

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old McDonald did WHAT NOW!?!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IANAL - "I am not a lawyer" common abbreviation on message boards

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I know, I was just making a joke =P Thank you for the clarification though! My joke wasnt clear enough that it was a joje!

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you bothered to read the rest of the article, you'd know they made a mistake, and later apologised for it.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

They still said it. Someone was dumb enough to tell her that in the first place even if it was later corrected.

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I don't know, this level of not knowing what your job is kinda goes past oops sorry.