if an unknown artist for examples name is "green man" and i want to put my superhero name "green man " can i get in trouble???, since i dont know if theres any confusion in the trademark name from a unknown artist and a comic superheroe the thing is for example, "sting" the wrestler and "sting" the artist have the same trademark name but since they are from diferent areas ,theres no confusion on that, in other words i dont know if that case apply st o me another question is if i use the name of a movie ex. "the fog" as a group of people that take place in a comic, for example that work for the nasa , can i get in trouble too? i do not know since the name " the fog" has a diffrent meaning in the movie and the comic these are all examples to just understand
'Green Man' and 'The Fog' are the sort of names that can't be copyrighted. I think the rule is, if the word is in the dictionary, it can't be copyrighted. In the creative world, there is what they call a "gentleman's agreement" that you don't use a name or a title that another artist has used. For example, it would be completely legal to call a film 'Star Wars,' but there's a gentleman's agreement that you can't call a work 'Star Wars.' (When I was a child I had a toy set called 'Star Trek,' but none of the toys in it had anything to do with the 'Star Trek' television series!) Besides, you wouldn't want your work confused with someone else's, would you? Especially in the Internet era - when people search for your work on the Internet, if you give your work or your characters a name someone else has used, then they are going to get them mixed up with other people's stuff, aren't they?