[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement

[agzak at optonline.net]

I have a request for help in a legal case, which might have long-running implications for space journalism.

Boeing company and its subsidiary Sea Launch took a screenshot of my interactive map of Baikonur from this page:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur.html

and published it on its corporate web site here:

http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/land-launch/index.html

with added labels, many of them completely wrong.

They rejected my request for a credit and corrections and instead made a completely ludicrous claim that they got the map from the Russian Space Agency's topographic division.

Now, I need a reputable source, (an industry representative, a historian or a journalist) who could confirm following:

-Russians would never give a foreign company a scaled map of their space facility, 

-Russians never published real (scaled) maps of Baikonur, but just schematics,

-All Russian military maps use completely different fonts, topographic signs and colors,

-and the map of Baikonur on Sea Launch's web site is totally consistent with voluminous cartography work, which I've done over the years.


If anybody willing to help please contact me. Please feel free to refer this matter to other online forums and communities. Thank you in advance.
   

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com