[stylist] Using Names of People You Know When Writing

[Joanne Alongi]

You can't copyright a name. Use whatever name you like. If you use your own name is that a violation of copyright? There's nothing a copyright law that says they name is copy with your friend needs to do his research on her research. Trademarks yes names of people know. Now you might use names of people you know to give yourself ideas as your building characters but if I do that then I usually end up changing the name by the time the story is completely written but copyright and legal issues are not an issue.

Shelley, Queen of bells out! 
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> On Oct 27, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
> One of my friends once told me that it violates copyright to  use the names of people you know in your writing, so it would not be legal if I wanted to write a story with characters named Bridgit, Chris, Jackie and Lynda, for example. Do you know  if this is true?
> I know that if I actually wanted to write about a writing group similar to Stylist and have characters similar to yours, I would change the names.
> Vejas 
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