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Arthur is the sidekick of The Tick.
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Originally Posted by Lyrik
Okay, so I have this bots MM and I really want to name one of my bots: Arthur. As long as I play MM's I never was able to name one Arthur.
And I want to know why this name is added to the list of invalid names. Is it a name that is offensive to someone? Or what? |
And of Gage Blackwood, and he was also a King, also the father or Ron Weasley. It's a common name like my other pets names(Marshall, Malcolm, Martin, Desmond and Destin)
If that is the reason, well I'm sorry, but that's stupid.
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Originally Posted by Lyrik
Okay, so I have this bots MM and I really want to name one of my bots: Arthur. As long as I play MM's I never was able to name one Arthur.
And I want to know why this name is added to the list of invalid names. Is it a name that is offensive to someone? Or what? |
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I seriously have no idea who that is supposed to be.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say maybe Arthur.|
Originally Posted by Lyrik
I seriously have no idea who that is supposed to be.
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Edit add: That link was the first link when I did a Google search on Arthur.
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That breeze you are feeling is the point of Zombie's post going over your head. Wether or not you recognize the character in the picture is not relevant. Other people do. Primarily the ones that own the copyright/trademark.
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I seriously have no idea who that is supposed to be.
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Yeah I got his name was Arthur. So what? Do all the people around the world who name is Arthur have to pay to a company to have the name Arthur? Last time I checked Arthur was a common name, nothing really special behind it.
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You are right. However, in the context of a comic hero game, any use of the name Arthur runs the risk of seeming to reference other comic Arthurs. In this case, most likely, the pictured Arthur you do not recognize (from a long line of children's books and a TV cartoon) or Tick's sidekick. The latter probably runs the higher risk as its directly a hero reference, but the one you don't recognize is the far larger franchise.|
Originally Posted by Lyrik
Yeah I got his name was Arthur. So what? Do all the people around the world who name is Arthur have to pay to a company to have the name Arthur? Last time I checked Arthur was a common name, nothing really special behind it.
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It is the context of the association that matters. And CoH treads carefully after the Marvel dispute of yore.
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Thanks, yes that actually makes sense. It's still utter ridiculous in my opinion but okay, I understand the reason behind it.
The only reference I had in mind was the Arthur in my avatar, and only by name(as that Arthur is an AI. My assault bot...is A without the I.
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Take it as an opportunity to come up with a witty name that's somehow a play on "Arthur", or a homophone. You might end up liking it even better than plain old "Arthur"! 
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Neh, I already decided to name him Craig. Unless that is somehow copyrighted too 
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Thanks, yes that actually makes sense. It's still utter ridiculous in my opinion but okay, I understand the reason behind it.
The only reference I had in mind was the Arthur in my avatar, and only by name(as that Arthur is an AI. My assault bot...is A without the I. |
You can give your other bots nice cockney names too (try Googling Eastenders for some. I recommend RIKKY and Bianca) and give them binds filled with cockney slang and the worst, cheesest lines from Guy Richie films (don't forget "Oi, $target, you slaaaag, fancy a bit of a kickin").
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Neh, I already decided to name him Craig. Unless that is somehow copyrighted too
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Isn't the robot sidekick in Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future franchise named Craig or Graig?
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Isn't the robot sidekick in Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future franchise named Craig or Graig?
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Hey, all the Arthurs I know prefer to be called Art anyway. 
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Originally Posted by Lyrik
Okay, so I have this bots MM and I really want to name one of my bots: Arthur. As long as I play MM's I never was able to name one Arthur.
And I want to know why this name is added to the list of invalid names. Is it a name that is offensive to someone? Or what? |
Since Arthur is an ordinary name (for that matter, so is Saddam) and it's unlikely that a ninja, thug, mercenary, zombie, or robot can be made to look like the PBS character, you are doing no wrong by evading this.
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Neh, I already decided to name him Craig. Unless that is somehow copyrighted too
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When the game refused to allow me to promote one of my first-rank ninjas named Saddam to a second rank minion bearing the same name, because the name had been apparently banned in the interim, I ended up calling that character Saddam. with a period. This would appear to be enough to get around it.
Since Arthur is an ordinary name (for that matter, so is Saddam) and it's unlikely that a ninja, thug, mercenary, zombie, or robot can be made to look like the PBS character, you are doing no wrong by evading this. |
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Well, in the mean time I got the official word, and the name Arthur is indeed banned because of copyright issues.
While I understand NCSofts vision on this and don't blame them for enforcing it, I think it's utter bull that someone. copyrights,trademarks, whatever legal term you want, a common name. A character yes I can understand. But a name?
Nothing I can do about that but still.
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It really has nothing to do with NCSofts vision. This game was sued by Marvel when it was still owned by Cryptic. In those lawsuits it doesn't matter if CoH wins, because they still end up paying tens of thousands of dollars defending themselves. NCSofts bank accounts aren't limitless so they're going to make an effort to enforce copyright/trademarks.
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Originally Posted by Lyrik
Well, in the mean time I got the official word, and the name Arthur is indeed banned because of copyright issues.
While I understand NCSofts vision on this and don't blame them for enforcing it, I think it's utter bull that someone. copyrights,trademarks, whatever legal term you want, a common name. A character yes I can understand. But a name? Nothing I can do about that but still. |
You can name your char Arthur in CO. Just sayin. Think they will be sued over that? Scary.
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You can name your char Arthur in CO. Just sayin. Think they will be sued over that? Scary.
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Okay, so I have this bots MM and I really want to name one of my bots: Arthur. As long as I play MM's I never was able to name one Arthur.
And I want to know why this name is added to the list of invalid names. Is it a name that is offensive to someone? Or what?
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