trademark or copyright names

[Beastmaster]

I'm sure some of you remember the hoopla over people naming their characters with brand names or something maybe a year ago?

With that in mind I was surprised to see the use of such by an EM in this thread:

Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum

Didn't some people lose characters or get banned or something? And I think some were allowed to rename and others got names assigned to them by a GM?

 

[Sweeney]

 

[Uriah Heep]

the Irony
*grins*

 

[Siteswap]

 

[Sweeney]

Nice one, didn't know about the Sweeney films.

 

[Beastmaster]

Hah! No problem there. This isn't my character's name!

 

[Siteswap]

Nice one, didn't know about the Sweeney films.

Heh. It was a British feature film in the 70's and also a popular TV series.