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by amelius 1146 days ago
I found this the most interesting part:

> Trap streets are not copyrightable under the federal law of the United States. In Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co. (1992), a United States federal court found that copyright traps are not themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright ... If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or widely disseminated."

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I have to imagine once you find your trap street, you can start looking around for other copyright infringements that actually can be prosecuted. In fact, it might be a better strategy to never bring up the trap street at all, extending its life a bit.