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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Whose copyright laws? Japan's or the United States'?
It's well established under U.S. copyright law that you cannot copyright facts. You can copyright specific arrangements and presentations of facts, but not the facts themselves. Player names and statistics are clearly facts. Team and league names are also facts, but they may also be trademarks. Trademarks are a separate matter.
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1. One group of people unilaterally choosing to use their perceived identification of another group of people is problematic, more so if this is based on some attributes monolithically ascribed to that group
2. This is true even when the embodied traits are putatively positive
3. And even more so when those characteristics are ones commonly represented by natural (Lightning, Heat, Hurricanes, etc.) animal (Panthers, Wildcats, Predators, etc.) or abstracted archetypes (Spartans, Warriors, Titans, etc.): aggression, battlefield courage, violence, destruction, etc..