RE: Bot hunting

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> From: "Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net>
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:08:00 +0530
>
> > Under US law, mere compilations of facts are *not* 
> > copyrightable, which is
> > why for a long time, map companies would have intentional 
> > tiny errors on their
> > maps, as the *errors* were copyrightable.
>
> That is real fuunny but I find it surprising that they did 
> Not get sued for wrong maps by the public ie "faulty product"
> or "misinforming the public"

Well....  The "errors" they introduced were, say, a street added to the
map that did not exist, or a street name mis-spelled on the map or in
the index.

This type of error would never come to light - except when the
publishing company suspected someone of 'copying' their map - because
no-one would ever look for that particular street...

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