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 Clinic [...]

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From my interview this week with the Connecticut Law Tribune:

“(MTA Spokesman Aaron) Donovan said that MTA welcomes development of “innovative applications” that make it easier for riders to access train information.”

Based on my experience with MTA, this is complete BS.
As Ron Coleman, IP lawyer and Goetz Fitzpatick and author of the IP blog LIKELIHOOD OF [...]

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A lot of stuff MTA says to me makes me laugh, but in a sad way, because sometimes I think they actually believe the stuff that comes out of their mouth.
But the one that made me spit coffee out my nose the other day is when MTA legal insisted that it was continuing to litigate [...]

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StationStops welcomes public awareness of MTA’s actions through the media and can be contacted here to answer questions on the latest status.
Thanks to the Associated Press’s distribution of Martin Cassidy’s followup story in the Stamford Advocate, newspaper, radio, and TV coverage of the MTA vs StationStops legal battle has easily doubled since two week ago, [...]

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Currently MTA is seeking approximately $170 for royalties on StationStops for iPhone sales between October 21, 2008, and December 18, 2008.
This week’s outstanding claim: That during those first few months that StationStops was on sale in the iTunes store, it contained the following disclaimer language:
“Not Affiliated with MTA”
According to MTA legal, not only was this [...]

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Tim O’Reilly is the founder of O’Reilly and Associates, the technology book publisher in Sebastopol, California that has been largely responsible for paving the roads to internet development and free software.
As an open-source developer since 1995, I personally owe a great deal to Tim’s company and its outstanding technical references.
One of my cherished tech mementos [...]

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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 Francisco Muni [...]

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