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NYC & SF iPod Subway Map Controversy

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Dupe! ... on slashgisrs.org by Lord+Satri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok ok, not a real dupe, but this was published on http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/28/1348208 last -wednesday-!

    I know I'm slightly off-topic, but not that much! I'm pretty sure readers of this story will have interest in the brand-new (launched a week ago) slashsite http://slashgisrs.org/ . It a new site for GIS + RS and everything spatially related, where this very story was published in the middle of the week.

    FYI, slashgisrs.org is probably the first slashcss newborn. There's also plenty of low UID available ;-)

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