Someone mentioned how a character name in the studio days could not be that of a real person.  Does that mean, were this rule in effect today, I could sue _Another World_?

Bronson Picket (Scott Guthrie Hutchins (1998)) 
                              . . . "Another World" (1964) TV Series


Scott Andrew Hutchins
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