<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Richard Colless <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:firefly@ar.com.au">firefly@ar.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">So if all you need is street names,use whatever published source you
wish. Just make sure that you only get street names. And whatever you
do, don't advertise it, or discuss it in forums. There are always some
smart-arse lawyers out there, and none of us really needs to defend our
actions in court, even though there is a strong legal basis to do so.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Interesting. What strikes me about the street names thing is that in general, there's actually no way to prove it, other than by the person's own admission. Whereas with copyright breach in general, you can show a similarity between two expressions of an idea. But with streets, there is really only one way to express "Thompson St". (Well, two if you count "Street"...)<br>
<br>Steve <br></div></div><br>