Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowd-sourced Postal Code Database 168
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An anonymous reader writes "Canada Post has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Geolytica, which operates GeoCoder.ca,
a website that provides several geocoding services including free access to a crowd-sourced, compiled database of Canadian postal codes. Canada Post argues that it is the exclusive copyright holder of all
Canadian postal codes and claims that GeoCoder appropriated the database and made unauthorized reproductions. GeoCoder compiled the postal code database by using crowdsourcing techniques, without
any reliance on Canada Post's database, and argues that there can be no copyright on postal codes and thus no infringement (PDF)."
Eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is required reading, then :)
Re:Some conflicts with this story (Score:4, Funny)
The URL having sued=1 in it is making it hard for me to stop laughing.
Re:2 days later (Score:5, Funny)
If it was only 2 days later, it sure as h*** didn't go via Canada Post.
It's not like anyone uses them all that much any more. The month-long postal strike last summer [csmonitor.com] (and the subsequent month to clear out the backlog) was the final straw for a lot of people.