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I think this is a load of baloney and a huge flaw in the "copyright" system. Those maps are everywhere in Boston … in tourists' photographs, floating around on
by benguild 13y ago
I think this is a load of baloney and a huge flaw in the "copyright" system. Those maps are everywhere in Boston … in tourists' photographs, floating around on the street, on peoples' phones.
If that's not public domain, I don't know what it is. It seems like this guy is just upset that he feels entitled to additional compensation when in reality he's already had his work licensed by the MBTA for their system … which is available to the public. Is that not public domain?
- LoganCale 13y agoThis is not the official MBTA map, this is an unsanctioned redesign he made of it to demonstrate his idea for how to improve the official map. It is his property alone.
- chimeracoder 13y agoTo the untrained eye, this probably looks indistinguishable from the actual map. I lived in Boston for many years, took the T on a regular basis, had that map committed to memory at one point, and I still didn't realize until I looked a second time that it wasn't the official map. They should certainly have double-checked this before copying it, but I can see why the confusion would arise.
- benguild 13y agoGot it, well then it was probably unintentional. Furthermore, the actual damages in this are, I imagine, nil as long as they replace the texture in a patch.
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