Now that the legal bru-ha-ha between StationStops and MTA has blown over, and MTA seems to be making significant gestures to opening up their data, I want to give a very special and overdue shout-out to some great people behind the scenes who supported StationStops. First and foremost is the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy [...]

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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, there is a bunch of legal stuff herein ‘as I understand it’. This morning I received a call from Congressman Jim Himes’ office requesting I brief them on the status of MTA vs StationStops after I had brought their attention to the matter [...]

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MTA Licensing sent San Francisco T-Shirt designer Joe Moore a cease and desist, causing his T-Shirt to be removed from sale by Cafepress.com. The reason: It infringed on MTA trademarks. Problem is, the T-Shirt had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the NYC MTA or its trademarks – it was a shirt satirizing the San [...]

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As I have bored you to death with over the past 4 weeks, a lawyer from MTA legal called me on the phone and vehemently accused my website of infringing on MTA copyright, pretending to be an official MTA site, and asked for my lawyer’s contact information so he could send a cease and desist. [...]

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This week I am going to shine a little more light on the gratuitous litigation behavior of the MTA litigation licensing department in areas not related to their current conflict with StationStops. We are collecting these anecdotes for public awareness, so if you have one, please send me the info here. (PS I already know [...]

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Over the past few weeks, I have attempted to get Mayor Bloomberg’s and Governor David Paterson’s offices to speak regarding the MTA’s frivolous litigation against mobile application developers like StationStops. I have spoken in person to both Governor Jodi Rell and Governor David Paterson’s press offices requesting a statement, but have received no call back [...]

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Apple has removed StationStops for iPhone from the iTunes App Store in response to a false copyright infringement claim by the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority. StationStops for iPhone has never under any circumstances claimed any affiliation or relationship to MTA or Metro-North whatsoever, has always used self-sourced schedule data which is not copyrightable by [...]

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