Today was StationStop’s first success in its public battle with the MTA!

How so?
MTA has made an official statement backing off my website completely, reversing their lawyer’s vehement condemnation and call for the takedown of my website last week via telephone.

Martin Cassidy has posted his story on the fight between StationStops and the MTA in the Stamford Advocate.

In the article:

“Schoenfeld said Freundlich also told him that the stationstops.com site may infringe the MTA’s copyright, but (MTA Spokesman) Ortiz said the MTA has no issue with the site.”

As I have noted before, the primary reason this fight is public is that when I originally spoke with MTA on the phone, the lawyer EMPHATICALLY indicted my website, StationStops.com, as infringing, could not be disclaimed as NOT being MTA with ANY disclaimer language, and indicated he would send my lawyer a C&D.

This lawyer had attacked my First Amendment rights, so I called my lawyer and contacted Ann Nyberg at WTNH immediately.

However, when we got the C&D, there was no request for the removal of my website, it referred to my iPhone app.

So, what happened to the lawyer’s vigorous legal attack on my website?

My theory is that this lawyer played it fast and loose on the phone, hoping it would scare me into taking my site down. But I am sure when he set the phone down and started to author the C&D, he took along pause and realized that was going to be legal suicide.

To have MTA officially state that they have no claims against the website officially puts me in the win column for that heated phone call. Its nice to go up against a lawyer one on one and walk away with a win.