I think Apple's action is the more questionable issue...
Obviously there exists an argument about who owns the data. However, Apple made that argument moot. They refused to update the Routesy application, and when it quit working (after a modification to the Muni web site) it was removed from the app store.
Apple simply took the word of NBIS as they must I think given the receipt of a take down notice. Nobody has ruled in favor of NBIS, but NBIS wins by default. If this data is really in the Public Domain (despite their arguments about owning predictions), then the Public loses by default. We (the Public) are denied the use of technology simply because "someone" asserts they own something, even if the courts, if pressed, might very well rule that this "someone" does not.
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I think Apple's action is the more questionable issue...
Apple simply took the word of NBIS as they must I think given the receipt of a take down notice. Nobody has ruled in favor of NBIS, but NBIS wins by default. If this data is really in the Public Domain (despite their arguments about owning predictions), then the Public loses by default. We (the Public) are denied the use of technology simply because "someone" asserts they own something, even if the courts, if pressed, might very well rule that this "someone" does not.
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