Real names

[ShaynMackenzie]

As the title specifies, is there anything about not using real names of pirates having sex in my story? I might have missed it, but could not find any rule against it.

Thanks

 

[ShaynMackenzie]

OK, I feel stupid. The site as a fan fiction site so names must be allowed.

I will be wearing the dunce hat for a few days.

Thanks

 

[SimonDoom]

OK, I feel stupid. The site as a fan fiction site so names must be allowed.

I will be wearing the dunce hat for a few days.

Thanks

There are no dunce hats here. Rest easy.

 

[Pocketshaver]

Sorry but the descendents of Jack Racham and Anne Bonney will put you on a small rock in the ocean with a bottle of water and a pistol.

 

[MelissaBaby]

As the title specifies, is there anything about not using real names of pirates having sex in my story? I might have missed it, but could not find any rule against it.

Thanks

I'll bet most pirates didn't use their real names anyway.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'll bet most pirates didn't use their real names anyway.

And I bet Edward Teach, William Kidd nor Anne Bonny will complain in any case.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And even if they won't complain... the names are in the public domain by now.

 

[SimonDoom]

And even if they won't complain... the names are in the public domain by now.

Except Jack Sparrow.

 

[Hypoxia]

They're DEAD, Jim!

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

A LOT of my ancestors were actual pirates - and most used cover names of some kind. ...Probably THE MOST well-known pirate in recent years because of the movies, was in fact, er, oh yes yes 'one of ours.' Although as you know the actual name of the real pirate on whom that movie guy was based, was not 'Sparrow.'

 

[MelissaBaby]

A LOT of my ancestors were actual pirates - and most used cover names of some kind. ...Probably THE MOST well-known pirate in recent years because of the movies, was in fact, er, oh yes yes 'one of ours.' Although as you know the actual name of the real pirate on whom that movie guy was based, was not 'Sparrow.'

See, I was right.

 

[Polyacrylate]

A LOT of my ancestors were actual pirates - and most used cover names of some kind. ...Probably THE MOST well-known pirate in recent years because of the movies, was in fact, er, oh yes yes 'one of ours.' Although as you know the actual name of the real pirate on whom that movie guy was based, was not 'Sparrow.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow

...so you're related to Keith Richards...?

In all seriousness, which pirate are you referencing? I'd heard the Keith Richards thing before (hence why they asked Keith to be in the 3rd movie), and it seems that large parts of the character's quirky behavior were improvised by Depp during filming.

 

[Emirus]

When I saw the heading I thought the thread was going to be about using your real name. But I use my real name already so nothing would change and my stories are all true recollections of things that have happened in my life.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Except Jack Sparrow.

Jack Sparrow wasn't a real pirate.

 

[Hypoxia]

Jack Sparrow wasn't a real pirate.

And he'd have flopped off Somalia or Borneo. Meanwhile, genealogy links me to a number of Old West outlaws and adventurers, some of whom used real names, while others shifted. "Who were you back in the States?" was sometimes asked. Thugs during the golden age of piracy could be just as circumspect.

ObTopic: I'm not sure when prominent names stop being celebs. How long ago? I used real names of science stars a century back, mostly forgotten now. I use real names of folks obscure outside their home county. If I wrote of someone (real or not) currently known, I'd play with the name. Jack Spider might do.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'll bet most pirates didn't use their real names anyway.

"Real name" is a murky concept. For instance, in UK law, your "legal name" is whatever name you're generally called and known by, no matter whether your birth certificate says something different.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And he'd have flopped off Somalia or Borneo. Meanwhile, genealogy links me to a number of Old West outlaws and adventurers, some of whom used real names, while others shifted. "Who were you back in the States?" was sometimes asked. Thugs during the golden age of piracy could be just as circumspect.

ObTopic: I'm not sure when prominent names stop being celebs. How long ago? I used real names of science stars a century back, mostly forgotten now. I use real names of folks obscure outside their home county. If I wrote of someone (real or not) currently knows, I'd play with the name. Jack Spider might do.

Ah, well then, every name I use is a real name of some person or persons out there in the past or in the present. I may or may not know them personally. There are some people with those names that I do know personally, but I don't write anything about them. I just use there name and maybe their personality traits.

 

[Hypoxia]

Ah, well then, every name I use is a real name of some person or persons out there in the past or in the present. I may or may not know them personally. There are some people with those names that I do know personally, but I don't write anything about them. I just use there name and maybe their personality traits.

I often invent names; I'll steal real names with a nice ring to them. But my real names are bestowed on invented personas and vice-versa. Don't mistake my Stan Ovshinsky for the real one, whose personality I can only guess.

 

[TontoedRanger]

I often invent names; I'll steal real names with a nice ring to them. But my real names are bestowed on invented personas and vice-versa. Don't mistake my Stan Ovshinsky for the real one, whose personality I can only guess.

I've done similar in my rather short time as a writer/author on the rebound.

I've managed to secure copy rights to my favorite one. Faced some opposition on that one. I thrive on opposition. Easily done. And for free.

 

[KeithD]

Names can't be copyrighted. They are something that has to be trademarked.

 

[Hypoxia]

Names can't be copyrighted. They are something that has to be trademarked.

If anyone can take "Duke Stanley Kamehameha Ovshinsky" then I feel robbed. And humored. No TMs on me.

 

[KeithD]

If anyone can take "Duke Stanley Kamehameha Ovshinsky" then I feel robbed. And humored. No TMs on me.

Just the name I was looking for for my next story.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I often invent names; I'll steal real names with a nice ring to them. But my real names are bestowed on invented personas and vice-versa. Don't mistake my Stan Ovshinsky for the real one, whose personality I can only guess.

I never use their real last names, only their first names. Last names I make up or use something that I think goes with the first name.

Now I know a young lady whose name is Alana, but one of the stories I have hanging around uses her first name with a made up last name - Alana Shankov. If there is a real Alana Shankov I don't know her. Mine is a trained since birth escaped Russian Agent on the lose in the US.

 

[KeithD]

I think I only twice used real names--and then only the first name. But it may have been from that, plus the chronology of my stories, that a former regular here (she may still be a regular on the poetry board) correctly guessed who I really was. So, you may rethink the use of any part of names of actual people identifiable with a character in your stories.