Book - Flashpoint China: Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance (Deino)

Deino

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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.


Me again + a few more questions, since my publisher will have a meeting with the military attache at the Embassy in Vienna.

Do we know anything else about that magazine ?
How many pages did they copy ? All 76 or just the maps ?
Is there a possibility to contact them ?

Thanks in advance,
Deino
 
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AlyxMS

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Me again + a few more questions, since my publisher will have a meeting with the military attache at the Embassy in Vienna.

Do we know anything else about that magazine ?
How many pages did they copy ? All 76 or just the maps ?
Is there a possibility to contact them ?

Thanks in advance,
Deino
I'm sorry for not being clear.
The "copy" I was referring to was your book Flashpoint China, I was comparing the book to the internet photos you linked us to and did some digging on the internet about "NAAS". I wasn't even aware that "NAAS" existed before that.

I looked around for more information.
It appears the publisher is really sketchy. Their adress is the same as "Institute of Industrial Economics of CASS", which if I've understood correctly, was the main producer of the book.
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The only email adress I can find about the NAAS publisher(not the institute of whatever) is registered on a free email provider. (That would be like BMW uses a yahoo mail address as their contact email, real sketchy)
[email protected]
I doubt it's still in use.
 

Deino

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Guys, I'm now a bit desperate.... :(:confused::mad:


Since about one week I'm trying to post a new thread but each of my previous four attempts failed; the links all end in a dead end. o_O

Anyway I'm still looking for an artist or CG-designer, who would be willing and able to provide some artworks for my next book-project. :D;)


Maybe You know my first two books I made with Harpia-Publishing:

Flashpoint-China (2016):

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Modern Chinese Warplanes (2012):

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… and again similar to these two I’m again looking for aircraft-profiles for the front and rear covers, so overall four aircraft. Maybe – and that’s right now too early to decide – additional artworks will be required.

Harpia - Flashpoint China 5 final xs.jpg

A prime example of what I'm looking for is this, however Bai Wei is strangely not answering any of my mails :( Bai Wei J-15 554.jpg

So If You are an artist and interested, please feel free to contact at best via PM.

All the best,
Deino
 

Deino

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Again or still me ... now with a more concrete request:

Does anyone know who's this artist, how to contact him - and maybe arrange a contact with me - ???
PLN Type 001 CV-16 vs Type 001A - CG 1.jpg


And second there's an IMO very talented artist named "Iron Ealge" ...
T-204C Iron Ealge.jpg

I would love to use both their artworks for my next project and even pay a fair and reasonable price.

Thanks in advance,
Deino
 
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