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Steven Lake · 12-24-2009, 01:54 PM

I'll toss my 2c in here and say, no, there is no legal precedent that says you can't write about public places, nor will you get sued. Public is public. I've seen plenty of authors insert real place names into their books and nobody says boo. Heck, the DaVinci code does that quite liberally, and the most they got was a few huffy retorts from the Roman Catholic Church.

12-24-2009, 01:54 PM	#14
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	I'll toss my 2c in here and say, no, there is no legal precedent that says you can't write about public places, nor will you get sued. Public is public. I've seen plenty of authors insert real place names into their books and nobody says boo. Heck, the DaVinci code does that quite liberally, and the most they got was a few huffy retorts from the Roman Catholic Church.