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Old 17th October 2005   #20
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Originally Posted by Midlandmorgan
Look at the guitar industry: how many Strat and Tele clones are there? I believe the copyright infringement only comes to play when the visual AND performance aspects of gear was obviously designed to be an imitation, with or without intent to deceive...
Didn't Gibson just successfully sue Paul Reed Smith to stop making the Singlecut model, an instrument whose visual and performance aspects resembled a Les Paul only to a blind & deaf non-musician?
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