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I took a break from revision today to revisit my novel.
I did a quick Google search and found that there is a small town in India with the same name of my novel which is also a place in the book. There is also a character from the World Of Warcraft games with the same name and the Roman Godess of brooms has a very similar name.
I'm not worried about the Roman Godess but if my novel is published will there be a copywrite issue? Please keep in mind that at the time I thought up the name I did not know of the character or of the Indian town.
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The World of Warcraft one may be more of an issue. Is the World of Warcraft character name trademarked?
If the name is unusual and clearly associated with WoW that might create a problem later on, if the genre of your story is the same as theirs...
It wasn't World Of Warcraft it was a game called DragonAge. Looks like a good game. Anyone play?
If you're still concerned, or if you don't want to use the same name as a real place, could you vary the spelling?
Another question but I think I may know the answer. I want to name a town( different story to my novel mentioned above) a name that is only one letter different to another fictional town in a very popular series of books. Once again this is not a example of copying ideas. I thought it was my own idea but turns out I heard it somewhere before. Would this cause an issue?