[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[John Smith]

I tried to search the list archives before posting but couldn't see anything about this.

The problem is people noticing non-existant streets on other maps and wasting time to only find out that it doesn't exist, not that it wasn't mapped.

These streets are usually used to prove copyright infringement so is there a way to know a street doesn't exist without breaching someone else's copyright?