Poor little kid!

Interesting story in the papers of a mother who has a son called Rooney (yes, I know!) and who bought him an Easter egg from Thorntons, who will normally if asked pipe a name on an egg in white chocolate.  But they wouldn't put this child's name on because they feared it might create "copyright issues".  I can see where they're coming from - everybody these days lives in fear of being sued, and many work on the principle of "better safe than sorry".  But in fact my memory recalls a very old case of a titled man who tried to get an injunction to stop his divorced wife from continuing to use the title and name which she had when married to him, only to be told that "there is no property in a name", so there is no question of Wayne Rooney copyrighting his name, even if he wished to.