Opinion ID: 77567
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Colbert

Text: 12 The expert report of Thomas Colbert introduces itself as a comparison of Basic Concepts, Program, and Design between the Waters proposal for Miniature Worlds and EPCOT as it was finally built. R6-152, Exh. 1 at 2. Colbert proceeds by listing similarities in programmatic design elements, site design elements, and building design elements. He asserts that basic functional relationships between major elements of both projects are described by the exact same bubble diagram. Id. at 3. He concludes that EPCOT as finally built bears a striking similarity to the graphic expression of Miniature Worlds as prepared by Mr. Waters. Id. at 5. He notes specifically that 13 [a]t every level, from the basic concept and basic organization, to the way nationally themed pavilions are arranged around a vast lake while being visually and functionally separated by landscaped, wooded areas with plantings indigenous to the nations under consideration to the way the artistic renderings are composed with landscaped access to parking on the lower left hand side and festive lake on the upper righthand side these two projects are the same. 14 Id. Finally, although he concedes that there are dissimilarities between the projects, he asserts that the core idea is in fact the same. Id. (emphasis added). Colbert asserts that the exact combination and arrangement of elements which Waters proposed was unique and had never before been proposed. Id. at 7. He similarly concludes that Mark Waters['s] design for Miniature Worlds was the source of the fundamental conception behind EPCOT in its final built form and that the Waters Painting is highly original. Id.