When Copyright Lawyers Attack
Wendy Seltzer over at Copyfight takes on an ugly incident. See, someone out there was smart enough to make subway maps in major cities formatted for IPods. Duh. Why don't transit authorities do this? Who knows?
Transit authorities are notoriously bad at giving customers what they need. But they sure are good as suing people who do.
That's what happening. The New York MTA and the SF-area BART have threatened ipodsubwaymaps.com. Read Wendy to find out the problem with this. And download some maps while you still can.