User blog comment:TheGleamings/The Pirates of the Caribbean Online Continuation Project/@comment-4093783-20130822043911

Since Disney owns the rights to PotC, you probably wouldn't be able to use their characters (Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, etc) of course. However, you could always use PotCO players' characters as NPCs and form new storylines instead. For example, you could make an NPC based off of John Foulroberts who would teach the player how to wield a sword or do something else pertaining to game lore. This could be an fun opportunity to create new game lore for this PotCO continuation in order to avoid copyright claims and all of those types of issues. If you end up using this idea and decide you need creative minds to help create lore, i'd be willing to help with that. However, I don't have the resources or knowledge to help with anything else, so sorry about that. :(