Guy legally changes name to "Captain Awesome"
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Posted on: 2010-12-10 10:11 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Not the big of a deal.. a few years ago, a army reservist legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.. dude lived in Ohio.
A man in England changed his name to "Her Majesty the Queen"
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I remember that. I picture he likely would say Autobots roll out all time to his company...and everyone responses we're getting sick of hearing you say that Bryan heh.
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Originally Posted by OmniSurge
Not the big of a deal.. a few years ago, a army reservist legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.. dude lived in Ohio.
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Im pretty sure that the legal aspect to the OPer question is that they can not sue the guy for the name change. You can not copyright a name. For instance if my name is Steve Rogers, Marvel can not come at me and claim i can not represent myself as that because its the name of captian america alter ego any more then i could copyright my own name to prevent its use by anyone else.
The lawsuit could only i think stand on the basis of a trademark infringement. For instance, if this dude changed his name because that was his nick name in high school then he is basicly clear.
However if he had a costume made like the one NC Soft used in the videos and started representing himself as that character, then he is infringing on the trademark of captian awsome from the videos and can be forced to stop. But the name itself is just not enough for legal action.
I love the way that he had already been successful in changing his name to 'Captain Awesome' and so went back to revise and change his signature to; '
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The video ads CoH had Roosterteeth make were about Captain Dynamic.|
Originally Posted by Pheonyx
No... seriously.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/conv...1363340&page=1 Could NCSoft/Paragon Studios sue this guy because of the video ads they made for when AE was coming out? Technically, they did have the name first and I believe they copyrighted the name when they did the videos. I doubt they will, but who knows. Ashes to ashes, Pheonyx |
His big catchphrase was "Press my Awesome! button."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yff3jH8NECs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfYFVKsBh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adUD3DDcQDo
So I don't think NCSoft cares about Captain Awesome.
He's a Chuck fan!
Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb.
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Yea, Chuck fandom to the extreme. It's like the guy who changed his name to Optimus Prime.
Saw this a few days ago. Must be a slow news day for the big news sites.
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Man changes his name to Captain Awesome, friends change his nickname to Major Idiot.
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And here I was thinking The Miz was taking his character too seriously 
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Wow. I was only guessing too!
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Yea, Chuck fandom to the extreme. It's like the guy who changed his name to Optimus Prime.
Saw this a few days ago. Must be a slow news day for the big news sites. |
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I'm currently in the process of having my name legally changed to "Rock Kickass".
No... seriously.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/conv...1363340&page=1
Could NCSoft/Paragon Studios sue this guy because of the video ads they made for when AE was coming out? Technically, they did have the name first and I believe they copyrighted the name when they did the videos. I doubt they will, but who knows.
Ashes to ashes,
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