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westernrvparkowner wrote:

RV App Developer wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
From another post by the OP, he is creating an app from the Good Sam Directory. Legal?

All I am using from the Directory is information that is available from all over the internet. I bought the Goodsam directory in an effort to get the most accurate, complete information available. So yes what I am doing is legal.

It sure sounds like you are using vast amounts of data from the Good Sam Guidebook. You are using it for your co-ordinates. In another post you were using it to verify restrooms and showers. Copyright law is pretty clear that simply re-arranging information from a singular, or even multiple, sources is illegal. You cannot, for example, write a book about a Great White Shark you call Valdormountain, terrorizing a small resort town and have the town saved by a young warlock named Harrison Pottery and a boat captain named Quad. Peter Benchley and J.K. Rowling would have issues.
If the Television show "The Profit" is any reflection on Good Sam's CEO, Marcus Lemonis, business philosophy, you can be assured he will vigorously defend the Guidebook's copyrights. And I am reasonably sure he has pockets deep enough to do so rather effectively. Heck, CNBC might even think it would make for good television and provide legal and financial support in exchange for watching Good Sam attempt to crush a copyright infringer.

None of the information I am using is copyrighted in fact it is all public information. Information that is also availabe from other sources such as the RV park's own web site. Just pick any RV park in the Goodsam directory and google the name to see what I mean. Or Just pick a town and google RV park near that town. I know this because I am using those public sources of information as well. The Goodsam directory is only one tool in my tool chest.

You mention restrooms & showers, I have to look elsewhere for that data because it's not in the directory. GPS data is not accurate so I have to look elsewhere for that data. Just to name a few. My database will be more complete & more accurate than any single source I am using.

I am providing free advertising for Goodsam and the RV parks in question. My app is just one of many ways a potential customer can find a goodsam or any other RV park including other smart phone apps. Most businesses are grateful for every potential customer that gets information about their business as long as it's accurate. But just to be sure I contacted Goodsam & Woodalls well in advance to see if they had any objections they did not, their only request was that I insure the information I provide be accurate & up to date. Which is why all information is double checked and verified using multipule public sources of information. Nice try but no cigar.......:)