[OSM-newbies] Copyright for street names

[Tony Bowden]

Harald Kirsch wrote:
> fake names on google maps are a problem, because if these are not real
> street names they are likely not in the public domain, but rather
> copyrighted work of google who made them up.

A street name is too short to be copyrightable.

Furthermore, in jurisdictions where it is not possible to copyright mere 
facts, but only the presentation or arrangement of them, it does not 
matter if some of these facts are not true. Copyright does not suddenly 
apply to a "false fact".

Tony