Wednesday, January 10. 2007

Singapore Lawsuit of Map Data

Two parties are in court ove the right to use government data on an online mapping site, Virtual Maps. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is suing it for copyright infringement arguing the company did not destroy data once the original agreement was ended in 2004. Virtual Maps contends it added value, and is not required to destroy that data. Coverage also suggests SLA is going after Virtual Maps because it has recently launched its on Web mapping solution for Singapore.

It's worth pointing out that Virtual Maps has itself sent out "hundreds" of letters demanding $10,000 or more from others whom it claims have reproduced its maps online.

- The Electric New Paper

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 06:34 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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This will be a very interesting case. So far SLA has admitted that in terms of database, they could only find 58 similiarities from 120,000 records. A representative from SLA even admitted that its negligible.

SLA also further admitted that they did not own all data. SOme came from many agencies like HDB, JTC, IRAS, NPARKS, MRT etc.

Whatever happens, good luck to both parties

#1 Victoria (Link) on 2007-01-10 17:44 (Reply)

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