[Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

[Nick Austin]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> To take a different example, the Royal Mail (still) claims database
> copyright over the PAF (postcode address file) database. Would crowd
> sourcing the address vs postcode data by each individual putting in their
> own data constitute database copyright infringement and if so who is the
> infringer?

There used to be a postcode crowsourcing project here:
http://www.freepostcodes.org.uk/

According to that site postcode data is available under an open licence.

Nick.