[WikiEN-l] The principle of fair use

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Jimmy O'Regan wrote:

> Just, so people know, [[Bruce Perens]] has a complete street map of 
> the United States on his ftp server 
> (ftp://ftp.perens.com/pub/US-map/tiger2k), which is also available 
> from the US Census site here 
> (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/). AFAIR, it's not 
> covered by copyright, having been created by the US Government, though 
> I can look for the original announcement if required. So, no help for 
> Europe, but could be useful for someone else.
>
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/tigerfaq?Q13 confirms that this is 
public domain data.