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What? The USSR was one of the creators of the framework IP protection conventions. Russia is legal successor of the USSR and paid its foreign debts by the way.
by ommunist 11y ago
What? The USSR was one of the creators of the framework IP protection conventions. Russia is legal successor of the USSR and paid its foreign debts by the way. So what Mapstor does is plain ripping off Russian IP, since maps in question were produced after 1971.
UPD: and Belarusian IP rights too. To be exact - legal department of the 5th Cartography Enterprise must file DMCA complaint agaist Mapstor and alike in such a situation.
Please do not think you can violate IP property of the USSR. otherwise, your own heir will feel uneasy when such best ripping practices will be applied to them. Inherited property is still a property, isn't it?
- gwern 11y agoSo, then it was exactly as I said: it's either the government or the public's - not the original mapmakers like your mother-in-law. In pretty much no circumstance will the copyright on military maps ever belong to the original person who made them; such things are almost always going to be for-hire works. (Why on earth would any government or organization hire people for the extremely expensive and laborious work of making global maps and give the copyright to them?) If the governments still care, let them deal with it. It's no business of yours, nor do you need to white-knight on their behalf and throw in irrelevant arguments & gratuitious nationalist slurs.
- ommunist 11y agoLooks like you know little about copyright law and how it applies. Very strange, you protect clear violators. Guys bought maps illegally, illegally exported classified material and are trading(!) classified information. Please, let me decide what is my business and what is not, thank you very much.