Guitar copies and Trademarks...shapes...and stuff.

[Outlaws]

Howcome any company can reproduce a guitars body style, Strat, LesPaul, dreadnought, etc., but as soon as someone uses the same headstock shape, all hell brakes loose?

 

[donkeystyle]

that's funny. i've been thinking the same thing.

 

[grinder]

I don't think they can produce the same exact body shape.

 

[Scott Tansley]

Not sure about gibsons but fenders have the body shape patented. There's a little round sticker to the right of the fender stratocaster lettering that says :Original coutoured body patented". Its on every strat headstock. Yet most copies rip of the body and change the headstock shape. weird hu.

Scott.
www.feel-rock.com

 

[faderbug]

funny video!!! reminds me of some of the stuff Primus did !(different though!)

 

[AcidRain]

Remember the Gibson lawsuits of the 80s?

And anyway, all you have to do is change the body dimensions a few fractions of an inch one way, and you have a "whole new design". That's a bit harder to do on a small headstock without completely changing it...