Mass Transit Licensing Departments: Take Down Your Maps

IpodSubwayMaps.com provides free downloadable maps of themass transit systems of over 20 cities around the world. The maps are formatted so that they can beviewed on an Ipod. However, wired.comreports that transit authorities in New York and San Francisco have “launched acopyright crackdown” on the website. Thelittle maps may not be available for long. 

The site has received cease and desist letters from both theNYC Metropolitan Transit Authority (“MTA”) and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit(“BART”).  These organizations are demanding that IpodSubwayMaps.comremove the maps from the site because it did not obtain licenses to post the maps and toauthorize others to download them.

[Meredith R. Miller]