Naughty Dog apologises to cartographer after he spots his copyrighted map in The Last

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Portland-based cartographer Cameron Booth was alerted to quite the surprise the other day when someone pointed out that his unofficial map of the Boston subway system was copy and pasted into Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic epic, The Last of Us. As it turns out "unofficial" and "public domain" aren't quite the same thing and Booth's map was copyrighted after all. Uh oh!
Thankfully, Naughty Dog has acknowledged its mistake and according to Booth, "it seems as if matters will be resolved to everyone's satisfaction."
"I can say that they do acknowledge their error in using my map and were very apologetic for it," Booth noted on his blog.
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