[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement

[David Woods]

Anatoly,

I took both maps and overlaid your original over the Boeing copy just to 
see how close it is.  Yours has more callouts but the river and roads 
are exactly the same as well as the geographic features..  In some cases 
the Site-IDs were moved slightly on their map, but the font is the 
same.  I have it all in a 1.2 MB PSD file that I can send you if you 
would like.

This is clearly copyright infringement because you have the proper 
credit:  Copyright (c) 2003 Anatoly Zak / RussianSpaceWeb.com  There is 
no date on their site, but I do not think this Land Launch web site was 
around in 2003 so yours precedes theirs.  I would ask them to provide 
documentation that they, Boeing received it from the "topographic 
division" without restrictions, and ask them to do so within a 
reasonable amount of time, like 30 days.

For what its worth, I have seen you material used elsewhere but in every 
case that I can remember you always received the proper credit.

Having been through this sort of thing myself on a number of occasions, 
I can appreciate your annoyance with their failure to cooperate.

Dave

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement
Date: 	Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:30 +0000 (GMT)
From: 	agzak at optonline.net
To: 	fpspace at friends-partners.org



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
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