User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Admin Post - Canon Name Usage/@comment-1874924-20111029173518

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but I've thought of it now. I was originally going to post this as a reply to one of Kenzen's comments, but I think it's too important to bury in a thread.

Yes, there are many people in the world with those names, but only one for each name in the Total Drama setting. To use the same name for an OC is a flagrant copyright violation, and one that the "fair use" exception does NOT cover. (Granted, almost all fanfiction is technically in violation of copyrights, but this is more so.) To insist on using a canon name for an OC, with no kind of identifier to distinguish the OC from the canon character, could therefore be plausibly viewed as evidence of criminal--yes, criminal--intent.