:shrugs:Īs far as Rics go, even tho I have small hands/fingers, I find their fretboard width to be a tight. So I guess it's legal when money is involved. Anyway, are they doing it based on a copyright? I'm pretty sure you can't copyright a guitar shape.Īnd yes, I have had my designs 'copied and altered', but in that case a larger company bought out the financial principals of the company I worked for, and our designs got sent over to Sweden (but none of the employees were taken, dammit). (And today you cannot patent a guitar shape).
But Fender never stopped making the Tele or Strat.was it just that Leo, et al, were lazy in defending design-rights? And I thought that patents (in general) have a lifespan of 7 to 14 years. this is how Matsumoko got into those designs.perhaps the single-cut LP falls into that same category. Buy performance aftermarket auto parts, Tuning car parts and Engine Accessories online with competitive price, best quality and excellent customer service. I know that Gibson effectively gave up patent rights on certain models (eg Flying V, Explorer) when they discontinued then re-issued them. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I've often wondered how Ric's legal grounds differ from those of Fender and Gibson who used the old, 50's/60's patent-laws which safeguarded guitar designs. The best Rickenbacker copy ever 20.00 and let's burn it.