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ericrightshow82ericrightshow82 Posts: 582 Arc User
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I'm sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, but I'll take a shot. First off, let me say that I know the importance of restricting certain names, especially trademarked ones. But some of these names are fairly common terms that blur the line and in my mind are a little ridiculous.

Example: I tried to make a radioactive character with "x-ray" in his name. Evidentally, there is an obscure character with that name so it's restricted. That seems silly to me, but fine. Now today I come across a Thor clone literally named "Thor". That seems more than ridiculous to me and maybe someone should go back over that list.

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    baelogventurebaelogventure Posts: 520 Arc User
    Thor cannot be copyrighted. He's a mythological Norse God.
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    avianosavianos Posts: 6,028 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Public-Domain Characters cannot be copyrighted
    and Mythology Gods are part of this    ​​
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    which is how i was able to use the names of the four horsemen for some of my characters​​
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    ericrightshow82ericrightshow82 Posts: 582 Arc User
    I realize its public domain, I was only pointing out my frustration in what I feel is an innocent name, while staring at a dude that was clearly a Marvel clone.
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    well, if it was a clear marvel clone, you CAN report him and get his costume voided at the very least

    as for your character's name, you could try to get around the restriction by calling them X-Rey if you don't mind renaming the character's civilian name to Rey - or if you didn't actually have a civilian name for them, now you do!​​
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    baelogventurebaelogventure Posts: 520 Arc User
    Just name him Radion II and go full Legacy character.
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    decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    It's a leftover from when this was to be a Marvel game. Frankly, it's fairly innocuous and not terribly widespread. Play with spelling or punctuation to get around it. It's not going to get a review after all this time.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Posts: 4,915 Arc User
    the list of names in this is HUGE though. It even has stuff like "Mary Walker" in the database...
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    avianosavianos Posts: 6,028 Arc User
    I'm curious, is there somewhere online a documented list of the Prohibited names in CO?​​
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    decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    markhawkman said:

    the list of names in this is HUGE though. It even has stuff like "Mary Walker" in the database...

    It's probably predominantly names they were actually going to use for the game characters. I wouldn't doubt X-Ray is on there because they planned to use the U-Foes at some point (they make a good Fantastic Four villain-doppleganger group).

    'Dec out

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    criswolf09criswolf09 Posts: 748 Arc User
    http://championsonline.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Name_Restricted_List

    I think this is a forgotten wiki, but this article has the names that can't be used. Idk if it has been updated.​​
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    That needs a forum spot of its own...I see XRay

    I don't know who that is in comics.

    So why wouldn't X-Ray work? I thought spacing were a no no.

    So does X Ray and XRay and X-Ray all read the same?
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    ericrightshow82ericrightshow82 Posts: 582 Arc User
    Yeah, they're all restricted.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Posts: 4,915 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Here's the M:AA version: http://avengersalliance.wikia.com/wiki/X-Ray

    But yeah, "classic" character who's not seen in the comics anymore.
    decorumfriends said:

    markhawkman said:

    the list of names in this is HUGE though. It even has stuff like "Mary Walker" in the database...

    It's probably predominantly names they were actually going to use for the game characters. I wouldn't doubt X-Ray is on there because they planned to use the U-Foes at some point (they make a good Fantastic Four villain-doppleganger group).
    Nah, I did just a quick skim, but it's Champions characters, DC, Marvel, and whatever else the people making the list felt like throwing in. I think I saw some GI Joe, Powerpuff Girls, Hellboy, Dragonball Z, along with several I didn't recognize.
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    The thing is that even some of the names they have censored are public domain too..I think they just blocked some for safe measures
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Posts: 4,915 Arc User
    The public domain names make sense if they were planning to use those for in-game NPCs.
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    Well for instance the name Captain America is public domain, but not Steve Rogers Captain America...like it was some black and white tv show character.

    It's confusing.
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    I think "Cat Girl" is restricted as well. At least it was when I tried to name my character "Kagami The Amazing Magical Cat Girl"... had to type it Gerl.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Posts: 4,915 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    *does wiki search*

    http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Catgirl

    Hunh, weird and obscure.... and one of around a dozen aliases used by Duela Dent.... Although she's not the only Catgirl.
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    Look up Dogboy the detective
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Posts: 4,915 Arc User
    why? what's that?
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    It's just Dogboy but it's a very disturbing comic book.
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    jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,431 Arc User
    I'm just glad to see that apparently Private Parts is fine.
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    roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,784 Arc User
    By the way, this is about trademarks, not copyrights. Laws and rules are a bit different.
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    roughbearmattach said:

    Just sayin.

    You can't do that, they're trademarked.
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    pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User
    roughbearmattach said:

    By the way, this is about trademarks, not copyrights. Laws and rules are a bit different.

    It's actually about both -- it's not that Cryptic is directly infringing trademarks or copyrights, it's that by letting people create clones it's assisting infringement by other people, and it's perfectly possible to do both types.
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    Now personally I'm fine with the thing in general because if this wasn't how things are we'd just have tons of marvel clones running around in game and that'd get old fast. But the whole thing is still strange to me. It's like if I went to Disney Land in a Bugs Bunny cosplay and a security guard came up to me and forced me to get rid of it.
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    pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User
    spinnytop said:

    It's like if I went to Disney Land in a Bugs Bunny cosplay and a security guard came up to me and forced me to get rid of it.

    I wouldn't be entirely shocked by Disney taking exception to you advertising a competitor's product, but the important thing there is that Disney isn't doing anything to facilitate your IP violation (cosplaying does infringe the owner's IP. Owners usually choose to ignore this fact unless someone is making money off of it).
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