[FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement

[agzak at optonline.net]

Igor:

Thank you very much. As always, invaluable comments. I did suspect that this "topographic division" is the invention of Boeing's lawyers. That's why we always use it in quotations.

Yes we have a map you are talking about. As you probably notice it is not to scale either, even though it is a breakthrough in the number of details shown. And of course, it looks completely different and it was released in 2005, i.e. after Boeing published a fragment of the RussianSpaceWeb.com map in 2004.

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Igor Lissov 
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:52 am
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Another Boeing copyright infringement
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> Hi,<BR>> 
> > 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?
> 
> No such entity exist as Russian Space Agency's 
> topographic division. AFAIK, of course.
> 
> And maps they use in planning of launches and landings
> are just the regular topographic maps of the Russian
> General Staff.
> 
> One good unclassified map of the Baykonur area was produced
> in 2005 at the 50th anniversary of the NIIP-5. Don't have 
> it in hands today so can't say who issued it.
> 
> Igor Lissov
> 
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