[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement

[Jim Davis]

Mr. Zak,

Have you considered the possibility that Boeing's claim that they got 
the map from the Russian Space Agency's topographic division and that 
your claim that the map originates from your excellent web site are 
not mutually exclusive?

Isn't it possible that Boeing made such a request and that someone 
within RSA responded with a warmed over copy of your map? Isn't it 
possible that Boeing has been acting entirely in good faith?

Now of course I don't know the truth of the matter but isn't such a 
scenario completely consistent with the points you raised (quoted below)?

The ease of electronic copying surely expands the fields of suspects 
beyond Boeing.

Whatever the truth you have my sympathies.

Good luck,

Jim Davis


>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.
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