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Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney
mikesd81 writes "ZDNet Australia writes that NSW state corporation RailCorp has threatened a Sydney software developer with legal action if he fails to withdraw a train timetable application that is currently the second-most-popular application in its category in Apple's App Store. Alvin Singh created Transit Sydney after he began teaching himself how to program in Cocoa Mobile. Within days of its Feb 18 release, Singh received a cease and desist notice from Rail Corporation NSW, the government body that administers Sydney's CityRail network. The email states: 'I advise that copyright in all CityRail timetables is owned by RailCorp. ... Any use of these timetables in a manner which breaches copyright by a third party can only occur through the grant of a suitable licence by RailCorp.'"
"As a government body, RailCorp information is protected by Crown copyright, a contentious provision in copyright law that has recently been used to block attempts to access information on the location of Victoria's bushfires and even seemingly innocuous information as the locations of public toilets. 'RailCorp's primary concern here is that our customers receive accurate, up-to-date timetable information,' RailCorp spokesperson Paul Rea explained. 'This includes details of service interruptions, special event services, track work and other changes. ... At this stage, it is not possible for RailCorp to grant third-party developers access to our internal passenger information systems. As such, any third-party CityRail timetable application would contain inaccuracies and have the potential to mislead our customers.'"
Advertised train times a fact? In what country is that? Usually, these are pure fiction.
Because the train operators have been using that damn application!
Disclaimer: IAAL.
Holy crap, and actual lawyer on slashdot!!!
Pointing out fine legal distinctions - holy crap, he really is a lawyer on slashdot!!!
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
But at least you can get off the train, right? Right?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Did you bring a watch ..... really?! Are you sure they didn't just change the clock at the other end to make it look like you got there on time? ;-) ;-)
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
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That is obviously a complete lie, you can't have been in the UK if you experienced trains being on time.... Didn't the German accents give away your real location? :)
Are you a grammar Nazi? I'm trying to improve my English; please correct my errors!
Oh yes, murder is very a popular social movement in Japan, at about 1.1 per 100,000 per year (the U.S. is around 9 per 100K; UK have 1 per 100K.)
Not likely, so we need to ask you some questions: is this your fantasy? Do you think about murdering people by pushing them in front of trains? When you were a child, was your relationship with your father difficult? How do you feel about your mother?
Who cares what the police did in the nineteenth century?
How do you handle some jackass blocking the door, thereby preventing the train from leaving until security removes the blockage from the doorway?
A running start usually works decently.
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specifically, Information Technology Law and IP Law.
Yeah, but are you on THEIR side, or OUR side..?
Who's with me?! I SAID... WHO'S WITH ME!!??
Being late does not make you a retard.
Being late once only makes you a tard, you need to be late at least two times to be a REtard.
"I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart" (Linus van Pelt)
How's about high power laser "sensors" - think about it...
"Blockage detected...coils charging...removing obstruction in 5...4...3..."
This is Japan after all - they solve everything with lasers over there.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
That's my experience, too. In American bukake, the guys are grunting, high fiving each other, and yelling comments like "take it bitch". In Japanese bukake, the men are very quiet and respectful. You can actually hear the woman crying in shame.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Wait a second... "Any use of these timetables in a manner which breaches copyright by a third party can only occur through the grant of a suitable licence by RailCorp."
What that's saying is that you're only violating their copyright if you get a license to do so.
Whoever wrote that letter needs to re-take Remedial Passive Voice.
I wonder how often they do that?
In the Italian part ? Probably all the time.
In the German part ? Hell, no. There are rules ...
> Other common reasons for trains being late are overcrowding and suicide.
Incorrect correlation direction.
Their attempts at using lasers to improve their extreme suicide rate has thus far been unsuccessful.
Did you ever consider that Japan's is so low because so many of the uncounted murders are from people pushing people onto train tracks, making it look like a suicide?
The rain delay for trains in Spain occur mainly on the plains.
Oddly, the suicide rate is much higher than the murder rate in nearly all cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suicide_rate
Thus, the one person who is most likely to do you harm is also the hardest to escape. The only way you can be safe is if you ... kill him.
El Whoosho.
You don't have to Bush-troll anymore. I know it must be a hard habit to break, but he's not in power anymore.
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