[talk-au] Copyright questions

Michael Hampson mc.hampson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 12:41:58 GMT 2010


There are street names I have seen on Google that are wrong and I guess
there are others if you went looking. (Don't mention the streets that just
aren't there.)

Regards,

Michael


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/1/5 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> > 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"...)
>
> What if it isn't Thompson St? You just got caught copying.
>
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