Precise Mode:
Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012 against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca1. The parties have now settled their dispute and Canada Post will discontinue the court proceedings
Creative Mode:
Hello, this is Bing. I can tell you that Canada Post filed a lawsuit against Geolytica Inc. in 2012 for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca1.
Canada Post claimed that Geolytica Inc. used a crowd-sourced database of postal codes mapped to geographic addresses that infringed Canada Post’s intellectual property rights in those postal codes21.
Geolytica Inc. was represented by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a technology law, policy and advocacy group based at the University of Ottawa3. The parties settled their dispute in 2016 and Canada Post agreed to discontinue the court proceedings.
I did it multiple times. I expected either the correct "I cannot answer this question" answer, or pure comedy gold.
I got pure comedy gold. Not only half of the answers are "yes" and half "no", they include large glass of math lingo smoothie that sounds super impressive, is completely factually incorrect, and is presented in a very assertive tone.
Artifical conman... Is there such a thing as mind sickness? From consuming such output?
It will never answer "I don't know". It will only give you concrete answers it thinks is correct even though you know it is wrong.
Prompt. what can you tell me about Canada Post's lawsuit against Geolytica inc?
ChatGPT. Canada Post filed a lawsuit against Geolytica Inc. in 2012 over allegations that the company's online postal code lookup tool, called "Postal CodeOM," violated Canada Post's copyright and trademarks.
Canada Post argued that the tool made unauthorized use of their copyrighted postal code database, which is protected under Canadian law. They also claimed that Geolytica's use of the Canada Post trademark in promoting the tool was misleading to consumers.
Geolytica, on the other hand, argued that postal codes are part of the public domain and that Canada Post had no legal right to claim ownership of them. They also claimed that their use of the Canada Post trademark was fair and legal.
The case went to trial in 2018, and in December of that year, the Federal Court of Canada ruled in favor of Canada Post. The court found that Geolytica had indeed infringed Canada Post's copyright and trademarks and ordered the company to pay damages of $500,000.
However, Geolytica has since appealed the decision, and as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the appeal was still ongoing.
