Book - Flashpoint China: Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance (Deino)
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Both! Flattered you're widely accepted as an authority on the topic, and angry some people are taking advantage of PRC's weak IP protections by stealing your work without fair compensations.
If imitation is the best form of flattery, you should feel extra flattered since they copied it word for word.
Just took my copy out and flipped to the corresponding pages.
Holy crap they just stole all the pictures.
You can even see the shoddy Photoshop marks they made when they are trying to put translations on them and occasional English country name they left in.
From what I found out,
The book in question appears to be a monthly magazine called NAAS海陆空天惯性世界.
I have no idea which issue is it from.
If the content is submitted and bought from a third party, it is possible to contact the them and at the very least I think they'll stop using content from that particular submitter.
The the magazine editors did that by themselves, I'm afraid there isn't much one can do about it.
IP piracy is already pretty bad in China and illegal book copies are the worst.
I'm not familiar with laws so you might want to consult someone if you choose to go after them.
Holy crap they just stole all the pictures.
You can even see the shoddy Photoshop marks they made when they are trying to put translations on them and occasional English country name they left in.
From what I found out,
The book in question appears to be a monthly magazine called NAAS海陆空天惯性世界.
I have no idea which issue is it from.
If the content is submitted and bought from a third party, it is possible to contact the them and at the very least I think they'll stop using content from that particular submitter.
The the magazine editors did that by themselves, I'm afraid there isn't much one can do about it.
IP piracy is already pretty bad in China and illegal book copies are the worst.
I'm not familiar with laws so you might want to consult someone if you choose to go after them.
I don't know if there is much that could be done. The plagiarists in question are residing in China, so I don't know if German copyright laws apply. Also, it is entirely possible that the editors ripped the material off military blogs/forums and even if that weren't the case, they definitely can claim that.
No, surely nothing can be done.
As such it was surely more meant as a joke and like others already said; if imitation is the best form of flattery
Even more since it seems as if that magazine accepted me as an authority on the topic.
As such it was surely more meant as a joke and like others already said; if imitation is the best form of flattery
Even more since it seems as if that magazine accepted me as an authority on the topic.
Oh that would be brilliant !
Thanks for that. However my biggest concern is that in a few months a certain US think tank or any other "specialist" like Dave Majumdar, David Ave or any other of the usual suspects finds this "Chinese copy" and uses it for an own publication based on his/her 'exclusive, first-hand, genuine Chinese source of reference with information of unprecedented quality' - without ever having even a trace of clue about the origin of all that info ... and a few months later it appears at RAND, Jamestown.org or whatever and that cannot even be described as 'frustrating' since my publications remain entirely unknown in these interesting circles in the USA as all their reference lists always show.
Anyway,
Deino
