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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."

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  1. Re:Defending the State by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can't say that ordinary people can get it for free but corporations (which, technically, have many of the rights of individual people) have to pay.

    Sure I can. Corporations are not people.

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  2. Re:Funny Slashdot is bitching about this when... by celle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vs Bush Jr. Clinton was an angel. Or maybe you can walk over a childs grave over meaningless wars and wholesale corporate robbery of the public and government standards that took generations to build.