CityFail does it again…
| 06-Mar-2009 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under comment, humour |
“RailCorp is threatening a Sydney man with legal action after he created an iPhone application that allows people to monitor timetables for Sydney trains and ferries.” – from today’s SMH.
The author (Alvin Singh) is currently working for News Digital, so RailCorp probably can’t contract him out for a few months or offer him a monetary payment for the app (which he has offered to RailCorp for free). How about accepting his offer of the code and giving him a yearly train pass…? Or letting him add in the bus, travel planner and service interruption stuff he’s said he wants to do, and giving him a yearly TravelPass?
Join in the new game that’s sweeping the country. It’s called “Bureaucracy”. Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.
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It seems strange that the timetables are copyright to ShityRail, surely they should be documents in the public domain? Perhaps they should be published under the CC license?
I’m not surprised that the timetable is copyrighted (though is stupid in doing so).
I notice that is also the reason that Television Guides are also locked up and out of public hands.
A while ago I asked them for permission. The email log is in this slashdot post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1151165&cid=27090121
It left me feeling unsatisfied :)