6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Aren’t they aware that the TV series is based on a book series…? If anyone owns the name it’d be George R.R. Martin…

@[email protected] · edit-2 9 months ago

Did he trademark it? Did he sign that away when HBO did the TV series?

Not that it matters for a passport. But it’s entirely likely a media company owns the trademark for a book character rather than the author.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I think it would be more likely that grrm licensed the trademark and IP to HBO/Discovery rather than sell it. But I don’t actually know

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

HBO owns it in the UK. Weirdly, I couldn’t find an active entry in the US database.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Thanks for actually doing the research.