NYC & SF iPod Subway Map Controversy

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 30, 2005 @10:25PM from the free-as-in-beer dept.

scruffy323 writes "NYC and San Francisco are claiming copyright violations for freely distributed subway maps." From the Wired piece: "More than 9,000 people downloaded the map, which was viewable on either an iPod or an iPod nano, before Bright received a Sept. 14 letter from Lester Freundlich, a senior associate counsel at New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, saying that Bright had infringed the MTA's copyright and that he needed a license to post the map and to authorize others to download it."

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Farewell, free country! by linumax · 2005-09-30 22:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This whole IP/Copyright thing is getting worse n worse!
Once upon a time US was a FREE country
Re:Feh by aminorex · 2005-10-01 05:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Like keeping a man-eating tiger alive by feeding it aborted fetuses helps the farmers in a nearby village... right....

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