The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has reversed course on what it allows companies to do with it's data. The iPhone app for the MTA (Subway, Bus and Transit) is now available again for download on the App Store.
Previously the MTA viewed this data as copyrighted intellectual property, and barred third party application developers from creating tools with the data unless a fee was paid. When this application, StationStops, was taken off the market bloggers, activists, lawyers, average citizens and commuters showed their support for the app developer and his product causing the MTA to retract their intellectual property claims against him.