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Trevor - under US law, you cannot copyright a name or derivative of a name - real or fictitious unless it is a trademarked entity. I could call myself Neil Armstrong or Roger Rabbit - and I could then write about myself with impunity and no-one could touch me. Copyright law only protects "authorship" - i.e. the construction of a work that details a circumstance.... short story, poem or novel, etc. My guess is that this would be pretty universal world-wide.
Last edited by Omaroo; 18-02-2009 at 10:18 AM.
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