[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement

[agzak at optonline.net]

Mark:

You are probably right. When Sea Launch first copied this map in 2004, I gave them every chance to claim that it was an innocent mistake by a junior web designer under a deadline pressure. They could've chosen to give me a credit, a link back to RussianSpaceWeb.com or remove the map and draw their own, using the same data.

Instead they locked themselves into a tangle of lies and made it into a potentially criminal  case involving top officials at Boeing, without whose authorization they obviously could not produce forged claims of Roskosmos' ownership of this map.

Also remember they've already been convicted for copyright infringement and an attempted coverup in much larger case with Lockheed Martin.
 

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Wade <astronautix at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:54 am
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> I have to put up with this constantly - uncredited use of my drawings
> in scientific papers, government and industry briefings, and magazines
> (including Aviation Week, although after my last complaint they did
> credit me in a recent issue). Most spectacularly, one author published
> an entire book that consisted almost entirely of drawings and data
> from my site - credited, but without my permission and contrary to my
> conditions of use.
> 
> Every attempt to do anything leads nowhere... and it's never worth the
> cost of legal action. Moral: if you put something up on the Internet,
> you have to expect it's going to be used without your permission. The
> main thing is to get the thing properly credited, which in this case
> they refuse to do.
> 
> But then Boeing was long ago taken over by lawyers and corporate 
> types...
> -- 
> Mark Wade
> Encyclopedia Astronautica
> http://www.astronautix.com/
> astronautix at gmail.com
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