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mr_dja
I always wondered how/why the owners of the copyrights allowed this to go on.
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mr_dja
I always wondered how/why the owners of the copyrights allowed this to go on.
Because for Fender guitars the designs of their guitars are badly protected by copyrights, Gibson has protected their headstock and body shapes a little better and are also more active in protecting it. But a luthier who makes a couple of guitars per year will not have to fear from Fender or Gibson. When your business really runs on copies there will be a greater chance you will receive a letter from the big companies. There's two luthiers in the Netherlands I know of who received a letter, and they choose to change the headstock design as going to court is too expensive.
There's another 'builder' though in Amsterdam whom orders Fender bodies and necks in Asia, assembles them to a guitar and then puts his own name on it. He has a thriving business now for years, and he advertises himself as 'builder'.
Mathijs