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To: smokingfrog

Can someone literally own a name??

If I named my daughter Elly Mae, will she sue??


7 posted on 05/05/2011 6:49:10 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Only if you try to sell her...


12 posted on 05/05/2011 6:51:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: GeronL

They also used a picture of her on the box...


24 posted on 05/05/2011 6:58:51 PM PDT by stockpirate (If they vote for socialism, support socialists, they're socialists duh....Ich bin ein Paliner)
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To: GeronL

I remember hearing Carrie Fisher talk on how she didn’t own her Star Wars character, and how strange it was to pass hundreds of little dolls in a store that looked just like her.

She was talking about how funny it was that someone gave her daughter a Leia shampoo bottle, and that that her daughter could “twist her neck and take her head off” or some such.


76 posted on 05/05/2011 8:16:09 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: GeronL

If they used her photo on the packaging without her permission...she can sue...


83 posted on 05/05/2011 8:36:50 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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