MountainProject Exodus
Why are Climbers Leaving MountainProject?
Not a contributor to MountainProject? Then the new companies anti-American agenda may not directly affect you. But it could be very misleading and inaccurate information to most users.
MountainProject and its volunteer administrators seem to have no problem with the companies new unconstitutional agenda. The companies plans are to change the original author’s names of climbing routes and boulder problems. Some routes are copies of existing published materials. Others are not. However, changing climbing routes names that previously have been published is actually illegal on certain copyright levels. It’s a form of copyright infringement.
Mountainproject is misleading users and has become quite a concern in the climbing community.
Several authors that own copyrights for the materials have drawn a joint lawsuit of against the company for copyright infringement and several other legal aspects pertaining to the matter. Lawsuits also extend to third party users that applied for the climbing routes name to be changed as well.
Why does MountainProject change the names of climbing routes?
MP can do whatever it wants with it’s company. Until it breeches copyright laws. Then legalities change. Routes and boulder problems that are in published books have copyrights. Entities can not change the information without the publisher-authors consent. They can however delete and remove the content to avoid legal actions against them.
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Here’s the Legal Argument:
Mountainproject duplicates and lists climbing routes on their website that have been previously published in guidebooks and literature. In most cases these climbing routes have been published before the date of Mountainprojects website publications. These climbing routes are exact references to the exact location of the climbing routes listed by the author and published in the existing guidebooks. The original copy written names of the climbing routes have been and are currently being changed, inaccurately and or purposely by Mountainproject and it’s constituents. These are duplicate copies of the same climbing route, the same area, in the same state, the same city, the same mountain and location – as listed in the copy written material that is published in a guidebook. Which in most cases is printed before Mountain projects claimed publication dates.
Therefore;
Since these climbing routes are attached to physical locations with the exact same references of existing published copy-written material. It is certainly copyright infringement.
