MTA derails iPhone application - Greenwich TimeApple has yanked a Greenwich Internet developer's iPhone application from its iTunes App Store after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority asked the company to stop distributing the program, .....
.....The creator of the application was Greenwich resident Chris Schoenfeld, a blogger and creator of stationstops.com ....
....."All the application developers will worry if the MTA will come after them next and sue them for royalties," Schoenfeld said. "The question remains whether the MTA is seeking to engage developers into licensing contracts or trying to scare them out of developing MTA apps."
Before its removal, Schoenfeld's iPhone application sold for a $2.99 fee since October, and it provided commuters with access to MTA train and bus schedules.......
Schoenfeld created StationStops.com three years ago to address service problems on Metro-North Railroad. It includes his posts about technology, entertainment and some local issues.
The MTA sent Schoenfeld a mid-August cease-and-desist letter after he delayed a licensing contract that would have given the authority 10 percent of his profits. Schoenfeld said he disagreed with the MTA's request for $5,000 in advance royalties. He said it is noteworthy that the MTA backed off an earlier claim that its schedule information was copyrighted intellectual property.
Schoenfeld said the iPhone application does not violate copyright, because it displayed and disseminated the schedule information differently from paper schedules.
"There was no way that it violated a copyright at all because it is a different digital form," Schoenfeld said.
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