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WV Assessor Sues to Keep Tax Maps Off the Internet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the define-overly-litigious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After trying to charge $167,488 for their collection of county tax maps (in TIF format), West Virginia was forced by a judge to hand them over for a $20 'reproduction costs' fee. Now a county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit trying to block the tax maps from being put online, claiming copyright infringement and financial damages since fewer people are coming to her to buy paper copies at $8 per page."

2 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Obvious Web 2.0 solution to the revenue loss by z-j-y · · Score: 5, Funny

    put contextual ads on those maps.

  2. Re:OK, it's three things that are certain in life. by robably · · Score: 5, Funny

    Death, taxes, and lawsuits. So long as they come in that order, I don't mind.