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Copyright protects a creative work. However just because you use a specific name within that work doesn't mean that that name cannot be used elsewhere (unless there is a trademark). Equally, just because someone uses a short phrase which is similar to one of yours, it doesn't mean that that is a copyright violation.
I never changed my stance throughout this thread. It was other people who implied that I was saying something else (aka "straw man"), specifically that I was claiming a character could not be copyrighted. The point I have been making was purely in reference to the names themseves, and to short phrases.
Note that your above quote is exactly the same as . Do you consider yourself to have violated this other poster's copyright? If not, why do you feel your case is different to that of the original poster?
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