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Borg King name

sukhothaisukhothai Member Posts: 279 Arc User
edited May 7 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So, on September 3, 2019 (I circled the date in red,) I created a captain named Borg King 001, and I am wondering if I will be hit with a copyright for the name? I do not want to be, since I named him Borg King 001 first.
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,162 Arc User
    I doubt it. You should be good.
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,166 Arc User
    Borger King: You rule!
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,576 Community Moderator
    Unlikely.
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,367 Arc User
    I think that might fall under fair use anyway, that said unless you're trying to sell anything based on it I think Cryptic would probably not mind, it's not anywhere close to worth the backlash or effort
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    You can't be hit with a copyright claim for naming a character in their own game.

    The only thing that might happen if that you lose your name and your character gets a generic name and you will be granted a free name change. However, I really doubt it in this particular case. pig-1.gif​​
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,367 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    You can't be hit with a copyright claim for naming a character in their own game.

    Exactly my WoW mage is named Bloodleaf and since she's a blood elf I wasn't able to make before The Burning Crusade launched and there's a character called "Ambassador Bloodleaf" in TBC and I've had my Mage since TBC launched and nothing has happened and yes there's possible to have the title "ambassador" for players.

    Really only way you could get hit by a copyright if you tried using that name to sell merch IRL.
  • sukhothaisukhothai Member Posts: 279 Arc User
    spiritborn wrote: »
    angrytarg wrote: »
    You can't be hit with a copyright claim for naming a character in their own game.


    Really only way you could get hit by a copyright if you tried using that name to sell merch IRL.

    I have been using that name to sell merchandise for the last 18 years.

    "Where are my cases of bloodwine!" Martok
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  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    spiritborn wrote: »
    angrytarg wrote: »
    You can't be hit with a copyright claim for naming a character in their own game.

    Exactly my WoW mage is named Bloodleaf and since she's a blood elf I wasn't able to make before The Burning Crusade launched and there's a character called "Ambassador Bloodleaf" in TBC and I've had my Mage since TBC launched and nothing has happened and yes there's possible to have the title "ambassador" for players.

    Really only way you could get hit by a copyright if you tried using that name to sell merch IRL.

    Which is kind of funny, since CBS couldn't care less about what is actually in whatever work the copyright rests on.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    thegrandnagus1 wrote: »
    Borger King: You rule!
    Borger King: Have it my way!
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  • paradox#7391 paradox
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    sukhothai wrote: »
    So, on September 3, 2019 (I circled the date in red,) I created a captain named Borg King 001, and I am wondering if I will be hit with a copyright for the name? I do not want to be, since I named him Borg King 001 first.
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    I doubt it, the 001 is unique enough, trust me I have 2 Spocks, with an extra letter each Spockk (TOS) & Spocck(SNW/DSC) and I haven't been striked myself I also have a Worf named Worff (Fed Klingon/PIC), even though I do have Original characters I also do like playing as my favorite Trek characters just spice up the game after gamer fatigue starts kicking in, also since OP has Borg King 001, that means that current one is an upsurper.
  • captainrc1captainrc1 Member Posts: 107 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    thegrandnagus1 wrote: »
    Borger King: You rule!
    Borger King: Have it my way!

    Borger King: Have it assimilated!
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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited March 12
    sukhothai wrote: »
    So, on September 3, 2019 (I circled the date in red,) I created a captain named Borg King 001, and I am wondering if I will be hit with a copyright for the name? I do not want to be, since I named him Borg King 001 first.
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    The point is moot. You created the name in Cryptic's game and if you read the STO TOS, Cryptic holds the copyrights to everything you create in their game.
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  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    crypticarmsman wrote: »
    sukhothai wrote: »
    So, on September 3, 2019 (I circled the date in red,) I created a captain named Borg King 001, and I am wondering if I will be hit with a copyright for the name? I do not want to be, since I named him Borg King 001 first.
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    The point is moot. You created the name in Cryptic's game and if you read the STO TOS, Cryptic holds the copyrights to everything you create in their game.

    Oh dear... I didn't even know this.

    I need to delete my biography's, or else they might start publishing novels based on them.

    (Just kidding, no, I don't believe they're that good :p )
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    thegrandnagus1 wrote: »
    Borger King: You rule!
    Borger King: Have it my way!
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    Sig? What sig? I don't see any sig.
  • paradox#7391 paradox
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    crypticarmsman wrote: »
    sukhothai wrote: »
    So, on September 3, 2019 (I circled the date in red,) I created a captain named Borg King 001, and I am wondering if I will be hit with a copyright for the name? I do not want to be, since I named him Borg King 001 first.
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    The point is moot. You created the name in Cryptic's game and if you read the STO TOS, Cryptic holds the copyrights to everything you create in their game.

    Who knows however the term Borg King did exist on Memory Beta, in a TNG Novel called "The Worst of Both Worlds", as part of the Glass Empires storyline.
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