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  • The MTA Is Going After an Etsy Artist Over a New York Subway Map It Didn’t Make

    01/09/2020 9:44:43 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 13 replies
    Vice.com ^ | 9 Jan 2020 | Aaron Gordon
    Jake Berman spent more than 300 hours making his own subway map because he didn't like the MTA's. Now the MTA says he can't sell it. ...What is not protected work under copyright law, Kjellberg said, are facts. For example, the MTA cannot copyright the fact that there is a transit station at Union Square and that the 4,5,6,N,Q,R,W and L lines stop there. Nor can it copyright the general location of a stop when plotted on a map, the direction in which it runs, geographic entities like the island of Manhattan, or the names of streets. ...After more than...